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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

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge. — Flannery O'Connor

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

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

The writer's life is frightful — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code. — Juan Enriquez

Poetry is the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma ... — R.D. Ronald

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

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

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

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink. — Alane Adams

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

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life. — Alan Watt

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. — Shannon L. Alder

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. — Diane Wakoski

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

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone! — Avijeet Das

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

I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man. — Daniel Sean Kaye

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

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious. — Maurice Blanchot

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life. — Julia Cameron

Crying cleanses the soul. — A.D. Posey

Learning is essential for living the life you love. — A.D. Posey

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

Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life. — Airam

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. — Carla H. Krueger

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. — Michael Martone

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. — Cameron Conaway

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic. — Marguerite Duras

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day! — Avijeet Das

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Annisa Widi Astuty

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. — Robert Hass

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. — Alan Furst

As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light. — Fennel Hudson

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling. — Grace Bridges

You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires. — Naoyuki Ochiai

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. — Marty Rubin

Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. — Anne Lamott

The end is everything. — Arthur K. Flam

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? — Nayvadius Cash

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

I wear the writer pants in the family. — Buffy Andrews

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. — John Updike

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver. — A.D. Posey

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. — Stephen King

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

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