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In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting. — Charles Bukowski

She lives the poetry she cannot write — Larry Wilde

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' — John Green

Sometimes, all you can take are memories
But if you're lucky enough to capture the moment,
it lives forever, immortally fixed. — Keegan Allen

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.
Today is the day you become a writer. — Alessandra Torre

The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work. — Flaubert-G

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use. — Marge Piercy

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson

It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives. — Derric Yuh Ndim

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives. — Evangeline Lilly

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates

Pity the cat, thinks the writer, for I live as many lives as I can imagine. — E.L. Tenenbaum

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives. — Bill Walsh

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. — George Orwell

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The writer's special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them. — Kay Kenyon

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing

When, I want to know, do writers get to simply live their boring lives? — Jonathan Galassi

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. — Walter Benjamin

Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives. — Damon Galgut

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V.S. Naipaul

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. — Brad Listi

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death! — Varric Tethras

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. — Scott Adsit

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. — Brad Thor

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! — Julia Glass

Writers' lives break into two halves, — John Updike

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie

Why do the lives of writers seem so ... train-wrecky? — Chuck Palahniuk

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Maxim Gorky

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