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362 Written Quotes

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. Votes: 4

Ray Bradbury

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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. Votes: 4

Paul Auster

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Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. Votes: 4

Jo Beverley

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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. Votes: 4

Rod Serling

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Votes: 4

Ernest Hemingway

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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead. Votes: 4

Warren Adler

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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. Votes: 4

Gore Vidal

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What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. Votes: 4

Sandra Brown

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For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people. Votes: 4

Mark Boal

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. Votes: 4

Ray Bradbury

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It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Votes: 4

Stephen King

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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Votes: 4

Benjamin Franklin

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I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality. Votes: 4

Rebecca Solnit

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Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years. Votes: 4

Samuel Beckett

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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here. Votes: 4

Etgar Keret

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When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have. Votes: 4

Dani Shapiro

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One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful. Votes: 4

Andre Dubus

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Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not. Votes: 4

Gardner Dozois

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I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever. Votes: 4

Cate Marvin

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I started writing to save my life. Votes: 2

Joy Harjo

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That's what my life is, writing songs. Votes: 2

John Cale

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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing. Votes: 2

Jean M. Auel

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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. Votes: 2

Jim Crace

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. Votes: 2

Harold Pinter

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Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life. Votes: 2

Ann Voskamp

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I guess my writing has changed as my life has. Votes: 2

Raymond Carver

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What is writing but an expression of my own life? Votes: 2

Zane Grey

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I'm always writing or playing because that is my life. Votes: 2

Rick Wakeman

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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. Votes: 2

J. K. Rowling

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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. Votes: 2

Gustave Flaubert

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Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. Votes: 2

Lemon Andersen

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Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life. Votes: 2

Patricia Reilly Giff

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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. Votes: 2

Ralph Peters

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My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. Votes: 2

John Updike

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You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? Votes: 2

Hill Harper

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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. Votes: 2

Orhan Pamuk

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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. Votes: 2

Edna Ferber

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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Votes: 2

Nadine Gordimer

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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. Votes: 2

Ruth Rendell

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Writing, like life itself, Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Your life informs your writing. Votes: 0

Quintin Jardine

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Writing is making sense of life. Votes: 0

Nadine Gordimer

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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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I am really just writing about real life. Votes: 0

Klayton

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Turmoil in life morphs into brilliance in writing Votes: 0

Lauren Gano

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Life is sad enough without people writing sad books. Votes: 0

James T. Farrell

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Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Most things good for writing are bad for life. Votes: 0

Lorrie Moore

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Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged. Votes: 0

Augusten Burroughs

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Live your life as if you are writing your Biography. Votes: 0

Keshia Chante

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I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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You could be writing the book that changes your life. Votes: 0

Brandon Sanderson

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Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it. Votes: 0

Katherine Anne Porter

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Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life. Votes: 0

Meridel Le Sueur

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The sacred writing gives instructions on how to live life. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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With your life, you are writing the history of the universe. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha M.D.

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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. Votes: 0

Keith Richards

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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. Votes: 0

Taylor Swift

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I guess you could say I've been writing all my life. Votes: 0

Anthony Doerr

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Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life Votes: 0

John McPhee

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My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son. Votes: 0

James Patterson

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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it. Votes: 0

Chris Crutcher

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In writing, as in life, always be true to your character. Votes: 0

Laurie Faria Stolarz

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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. Votes: 0

John Muir

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Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy. Votes: 0

Wilfrid Sheed

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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life. Votes: 0

Susan Isaacs

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Let All Your Life's Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..! Votes: 0

Sujit Lalwani

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I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. Votes: 0

Nick Blaemire

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As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. Votes: 0

Ben Gibbard

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Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance. Votes: 0

Brooks Atkinson

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Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive. Votes: 0

Crescent Dragonwagon

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Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us. Votes: 0

Victor Serge

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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. Votes: 0

Mark Strand

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An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing. Votes: 0

Phil Vischer

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Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. Votes: 0

Helen Hodgman

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Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage. Votes: 0

Lawrence Sanders

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If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do. Votes: 0

Alejandro Zambra

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman

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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown

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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. Votes: 0

Wallace Stegner

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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not. Votes: 0

Jayne Anne Phillips

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Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in. Votes: 0

Kevin Henkes

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I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding. Votes: 0

Giacomo Casanova

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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. Votes: 0

Anne Carson

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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments. Votes: 0

Natalia Kills

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Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life. Votes: 0

Dinty W. Moore

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It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. Votes: 0

Leigh Newman

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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. Votes: 0

Dorothy Allison

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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. Votes: 0

Kate Atkinson

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Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. Votes: 0

Niki de St. Phalle

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Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can. Votes: 0

Kat Unda

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His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another. Votes: 0

William Joyce

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. Votes: 0

Alice Walker

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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. Votes: 0

Stephen Fry

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All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. Votes: 0

Nancy Friday

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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. Votes: 0

Lauren Groff

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I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely. Votes: 0

Josh Lieb

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You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing. Votes: 0

Tift Merritt

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My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about. Votes: 0

Tucker Max

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Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. Votes: 0

Bret Easton Ellis

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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't. Votes: 0

Ricky Jay

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I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life. Votes: 0

Jen Lancaster

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Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. Votes: 0

Gloria Swanson

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My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry. Votes: 0

Kevin DeYoung

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When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. Votes: 0

Sue Monk Kidd

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You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Votes: 0

Katherine Center

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All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing. Votes: 0

Paul Weller

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A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. Votes: 0

Tobias Wolff

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Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. Votes: 0

Hubert Selby, Jr.

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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes. Votes: 0

Randy Owen

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Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing. Votes: 0

Philipp Meyer

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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Votes: 0

Iain Banks

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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. Votes: 0

Russell Banks

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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing. Votes: 0

Tobias Wolff

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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life. Votes: 0

Esther Forbes

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Life is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time~? Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? Votes: 0

Nayvadius Cash

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Life is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time? Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. Votes: 0

Nicholas Jarecki

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It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. Votes: 0

Gloria Vanderbilt

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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. Votes: 0

Michael Morpurgo

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Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. Votes: 0

Kate Bush

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What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. Votes: 0

Ted Hughes

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I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide. Votes: 0

Lana Del Rey

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After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life. Votes: 0

Andy Cohen

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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. Votes: 0

Jon Katz

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I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it Votes: 0

Les Back

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Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. Votes: 0

Rose Wilder Lane

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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life." Votes: 0

Jon Katz

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My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. Votes: 0

Grace Paley

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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. Votes: 0

Willa Cather

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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'. Votes: 0

L. Ron Hubbard

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I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up. Votes: 0

Rebel Wilson

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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel

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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz

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Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to. Votes: 0

Joe Jonas

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A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. Votes: 0

Eugene Ionesco

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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day? Votes: 0

R. L. Stine

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In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. Votes: 0

Miriam Toews

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When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Votes: 0

Judy Blume

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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. Votes: 0

Philip K. Dick

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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. Votes: 0

Donald Hall

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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. Votes: 0

Will Self

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My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write. Votes: 0

Jillian Medoff

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What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. Votes: 0

Chinua Achebe

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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. Votes: 0

Derek Raymond

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When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen. Votes: 0

Thom Yorke

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Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. Votes: 0

Kevin James

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Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. Votes: 0

Manuel Rivas

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My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life. Votes: 0

Kevin J. Anderson

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I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it. Votes: 0

Sammy Hagar

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I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life. Votes: 0

Jennifer Weiner

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Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. Votes: 0

Heather Sellers

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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. Votes: 0

Jan Karon

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in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. Votes: 0

Christina Baldwin

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A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. Votes: 0

Richard Hugo

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I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and canât erase my mistakes. Votes: 0

Bill Kaulitz

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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. Votes: 0

Nick Cave

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I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. Votes: 0

Dorianne Laux

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I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. Votes: 0

Wayne Shorter

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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. Votes: 0

Nancy K. Miller

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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. Votes: 0

Sue Townsend

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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. Votes: 0

William Styron

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If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life. Votes: 0

Jim Goad

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Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation"potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world. Votes: 0

Reynolds Price

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I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. Votes: 0

Rob Reiner

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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. Votes: 0

Alan Furst

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Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson. Votes: 0

Jane Fonda

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I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. Votes: 0

Andrew Motion

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Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. Votes: 0

Guy Kawasaki

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There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me. Votes: 0

Dan Chaon

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It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. Votes: 0

Hallie Burnett

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I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about. Votes: 0

Nguyen Viet Thang

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Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. Votes: 0

Jay Neugeboren

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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory. Votes: 0

Etgar Keret

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It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating. Votes: 0

Lewis Black

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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out. Votes: 0

Robert Holden

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Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. Votes: 0

Emily Carr

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I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Archer

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I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. Votes: 0

Ted Nugent

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Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

Tom Felton

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Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it. Votes: 0

Julie Roberts

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In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order. Votes: 0

Ashwin Sanghi

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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. Votes: 0

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. Votes: 0

Amin Maalouf

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[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. Votes: 0

Orhan Pamuk

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You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. Votes: 0

John Taylor Gatto

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To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. Votes: 0

Dennis Covington

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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life. Votes: 0

Mark Webber

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When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. Votes: 0

Pat Mora

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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. Votes: 0

Paul Thomas Anderson

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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it. Votes: 0

John Lutz

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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. Votes: 0

Ted Dekker

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I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad. Votes: 0

Owen Pallett

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I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. Votes: 0

Gregory Mcdonald

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It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. Votes: 0

Laura Bell Bundy

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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. Votes: 0

Ashwin Sanghi

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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. Votes: 0

Meg Rosoff

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The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life's traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive. Votes: 0

James W. Pennebaker

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My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more. Votes: 0

Juliana Hatfield

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I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again. Votes: 0

DJ Shadow

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For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. Votes: 0

Maynard James Keenan

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If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life. Votes: 0

Edward Albee

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A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way. Votes: 0

Philip Roth

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I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. Votes: 0

Bret Easton Ellis

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If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. Votes: 0

Don Roff

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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life. Votes: 0

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way. Votes: 0

Emma Donoghue

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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do? Votes: 0

Clark Blaise

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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band. Votes: 0

Ethan Hawke

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I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity. Votes: 0

Ayana Mathis

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I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people. Votes: 0

Philip Glass

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Always being myself and my salve, which is life. Iâm not lonely, if thatâs what it seems like. Always writing things down. Votes: 0

Chris Campanioni

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Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. Votes: 0

Helene Cixous

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For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent. Votes: 0

Tristan Prettyman

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This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling. Votes: 0

Martin Amis

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective. Votes: 0

Michael Ian Black

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As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death. Votes: 0

Craig Briggs

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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen. Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you canât drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. Votes: 0

Andre Dubus

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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness. Votes: 0

Rachel Holmes

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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. Votes: 0

Nicholas Sparks

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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. Votes: 0

Nina Bawden

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Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road. Votes: 0

Peter Matthiessen

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I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction. Votes: 0

Alan Furst

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My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind. Votes: 0

Sue Miller

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Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life. Votes: 0

Jerry Stahl

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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves. Votes: 0

Alice Hoffman

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I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life. Votes: 0

Claire Tomalin

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A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. Votes: 0

Jane Smiley

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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. Votes: 0

Tayari Jones

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Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me. Votes: 0

Frank Luntz

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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything. Votes: 0

Taylor Swift

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Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. Votes: 0

John Lydon

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No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one. Votes: 0

Michael Winter

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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless. Votes: 0

Hari Kunzru

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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything. Votes: 0

Taylor Swift

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At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life. Votes: 0

David H. Murdock

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You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. Votes: 0

Diana Krall

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If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer. Votes: 0

David Brin

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I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old. Votes: 0

Smokey Robinson

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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes. Votes: 0

Bruce Robinson

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My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience. Votes: 0

Raymond Pettibon

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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life. Votes: 0

Oliver Sacks

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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again. Votes: 0

Koren Zailckas

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Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else. Votes: 0

Randy Newman

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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. Votes: 0

Patrick White

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It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry. Votes: 0

Stella McCartney

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Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life. Votes: 0

Jacques Villeneuve

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One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. Votes: 0

Tobias Wolff

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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life. Votes: 0

Julianna Baggott

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I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent. Votes: 0

Dan Chaon

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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world. Votes: 0

Gertrude Atherton

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I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug. Votes: 0

Dan Harmon

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Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing. Votes: 0

Peter Benchley

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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. Votes: 0

Eudora Welty

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I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt. Votes: 0

Phil Collins

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Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself. Votes: 0

Khaled Hosseini

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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. Votes: 0

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. Votes: 0

Ignazio Silone

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I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living. Votes: 0

Sherwood Anderson

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I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake. Votes: 0

Darryl Pinckney

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All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. Votes: 0

Kate Zambreno

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In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor. Votes: 0

Mimi Pond

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I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. Votes: 0

Roscoe Mitchell

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The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. Votes: 0

Pankaj Mishra

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Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. Votes: 0

Michael Winter

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I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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And you know there's nothing like writing a song about someone who's mean to you, and just makes your life miserableâ¦and then winning a Grammy for it. Votes: 0

Taylor Swift

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. Votes: 0

Rita Dove

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I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. Votes: 0

Marian Keyes

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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life. Votes: 0

Neil LaBute

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I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it. Votes: 0

Laurie Foos

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Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it. Votes: 0

Paris Hilton

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I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written. Votes: 0

Piroska Rodriguez

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing Votes: 0

Rita Dove

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Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. Votes: 0

Enya

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My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this. Votes: 0

Wendy C. Ortiz

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Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character. Votes: 0

Aimee Bender

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I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday. Votes: 0

Ned Rorem

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And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. Votes: 0

Philip K. Dick

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Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given. Votes: 0

Roger Rosenblatt

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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do. Votes: 0

PJ Harvey

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Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. Votes: 0

Neil Simon

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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there. Votes: 0

Ben Okri

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I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated. Votes: 0

Traci Lords

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Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once. Votes: 0

Pico Iyer

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Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself. Votes: 0

Robin S. Sharma

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When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life. Votes: 0

Maria Semple

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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life. Votes: 0

Betsy Lerner

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I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity. Votes: 0

Tristan Prettyman

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Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. Votes: 0

Paul Auster

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I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person. Votes: 0

Meg Rosoff

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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Votes: 0

Russell Banks

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I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing. Votes: 0

Max Ehrmann

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There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up. Votes: 0

Marilyn Johnson

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I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.' Votes: 0

Neel Mukherjee

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Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.' Votes: 0

Elizabeth McCracken

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History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes. Votes: 0

Robert Lowell

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People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.' Votes: 0

Miranda Hart

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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death â fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. Votes: 0

Edna Ferber

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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career. Votes: 0

Tea Obreht

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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem. Votes: 0

Jojo Moyes

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For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all. Votes: 0

Richard Ford

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The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse. Votes: 0

Miriam Toews

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Lehman uses many conveyancesâincluding the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesâto travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity. Votes: 0

Ken Tucker

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But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

James Franco

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I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

Athol Fugard

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I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

Heidi Julavits

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I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not - are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.

Gerald Stern

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