Life Writing Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Life Writing

Life Writing Quotes & Sayings

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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom. — Subhan Zein

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection. — Sherry Turkle

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. — Ray Bradbury

Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen. — Sandra J. Jackson

The writer's life is frightful — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. — Joyce Carol Oates

Write it down and it will come alive. — Efrat Israeli

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him? — Beth Moore

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son. — James Patterson

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. — Hallie Burnett

Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes — Pamela Morris

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. — Christy Hall

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. — Taylor Swift

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

Great books make a great life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to write about life first you must live it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Details are the Life of Prose. — Jack Kerouac

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands. — Chila Woychik

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. — Piroska Rodriguez

Sometimes, we think faster than what you write. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. — Miguel Syjuco

You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W. Sill

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results. — Kia Carrington-Russell

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz

For me, writing was the only way out. — Anne Tyler

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. — Woody Allen

If you can't talk about, write about it! — Tracey Reddick

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

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in. — Cameron Crowe

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. — Pandora Gray

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams

When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever. — Don Roff

I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life. — Cara Colter

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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. — Isabel Allende

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

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories! — Avijeet Das

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire

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

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. — Andre Dubus III

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

I don't make the rules, I just make it up. — L. Davyd Pollack

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. — Nick Cave

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas

Writing,Reading,Working and Loving People. That's My life. — Ahmed Farrag

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book. — Magus Tor

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond

Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life. — Chuck Palahniuk

The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it - — David Shields

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

Discovery's friend is creativity — Phillip Gary Smith

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it. — Carla H. Krueger

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band. — Ethan Hawke

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky. — Britt Holewinski

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

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. — Sarah Dessen

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother. — Debasish Mridha

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. — Bruce Robinson

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. — Christy Hall

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage. — Kathleen Madigan

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

Genetic code is a divine writing. — Toba Beta

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 life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. — Kyle Muntz

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer. — Richard Wisniewski

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make. — Robert Benson

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

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright. — Beem Weeks

My life on earth is personal journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No one ever does the last thing on their list. — Ariel Gore

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. — Tobias Wolff

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers. — Michelle M. Pillow

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. — Tristan Prettyman

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

I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is a sacred story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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