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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
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 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
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
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
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I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
— Ann Marie Frohoff
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
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
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
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
Time heals all wounds; some broken hearts and most cases of writer's block. — Quentin R. Bufogle
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
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
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
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
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 aloneit'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
Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.
— C.S. Woolley
Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
— Joanna Penn
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
The writer's life is a sacred wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita