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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

The writer's life is frightful — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully. — Shannon L. Alder

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

We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro

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

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

The writer's creed: If life hands you lemons--write The Lemon Cookbook! — Sharon Geltner

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

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it! — Debra L. Hartmann

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

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

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

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

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

The writer's life seethes within but not without. — Anthony Burgess

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

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor. — Chloe Thurlow

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

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

But [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone's orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing. — Robert Graves

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've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it. — Ann Marie Frohoff

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

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

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two. — Shannon Celebi

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

The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure. — Victoria Glendinning

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

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive. — Susan Sontag

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. — Dorothy Gallagher

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free. — Christy Hall

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — James Baldwin

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

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

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

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

Time heals all wounds; some broken hearts
and most cases of writer's block. — Quentin R. Bufogle

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

The story is the story is the story. — Heather O'Brien

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. — Rob Bignell, Editor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher — Marci Shimoff

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness. — Katelyn S. Bolds

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

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

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

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

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

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. — Bill Barich

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ... — John Geddes

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work. — Kingsley Amis

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

The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. — R.S. Guthrie

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

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus

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

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

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

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

Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'. — Fennel Hudson

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