Writers Their Lives Quotes
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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
Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut 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
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
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
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
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
