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And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body
her life. — Tim O'Brien

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God — Anonymous

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. — Dani Shapiro

Beside every great writer is a great listener. — Nanette L. Avery

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be. — J.K. Rowling

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer. — William Styron

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. — Louise Erdrich

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it. — Nick Harkaway

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash) — Larry Brown

THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer? — Steven Pressfield

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale. — Fennel Hudson

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you're a writer. That's still considered cool. — Dan Alatorre

To be a good writer, become a good listener. — Cynthia Briggs

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life. — Flannery O'Connor

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. — Andrea L'Artiste

Writing is a way of life. — Kayla Lowe

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. — T.L. Rese

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. — Katherine Paterson

A humorist is a writer who's not funny enough to call themselves a comedian. — Dan Alatorre

You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely. — Ava Sinclair

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror. — Debasish Mridha

A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind. — Debasish Mridha

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood. — Stanley Elkin

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. — Amy Tan

A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with! — Christie Silvers

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time. — Peter Gould

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been. — Mohsin Hamid

I feel that a book is never written by the writer alone
it's written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly — Subhasis Das

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever. — C.S. Woolley

A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life. — Debasish Mridha

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — Alice Walker

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. - — Stephen King

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. — Mary Garden

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can. — Debasish Mridha

The writer's life is a life of revisions. — Jonathan Franzen

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. — Jayne Anne Phillips

To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits — John Geddes

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me. — Athol Fugard

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection. — Lisa Unger

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens. — Kevin J. Fitzgerald

A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates

A man's ego can drive him either to heights of glory or to depths of misery! — Avijeet Das

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death. — Edna Ferber

Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols. — Will Lavender

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend. — Solange Nicole

It's a nice feeling,
Knowing,
Someone lived easier
Because I was alive. — Nikki Rowe

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. — Debasish Mridha

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy. — Larry Brooks

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life. — Vicki Baum

Social Media begins with a story - your story. — Germany Kent

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did. — Carla H. Krueger

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. — Yu Cao

One has to live a life that creates a writer. — Erno Paasilinna

I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately. — Michelle D. Kwasney

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. — Michael Chabon

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

A writer needs a life of introspection. — Tom Robbins

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan

Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer. — Susan Juby

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. — Charlotte Eriksson

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. — Gabrielle Roy

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag

A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity. — Toni Morrison

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. — Neil Gaiman

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. — Paul Auster

The writer's life is a sacred wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life. — Norman Mailer

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged. — Roger Avary

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny. — Stephanie Lennox

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan. — Fennel Hudson

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away. — Buffy Andrews

Isolation filled with loud silence is a writer's paradise. I wonder how far north toward the Mediterranean must I travel to get there. — Terry A. O'Neal

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. — Joanna Penn

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life. — Paul Theroux

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need. — Chloe Thurlow

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life — Jerzy Kosinski

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. — Eyvind Johnson

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap. — Cassandra Duffy

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson