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It's not about the size of your book, It's about the substance in it. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

When life gives you lemons ~ write about 'em! — Kimmie Easley

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about. — Robin S. Sharma

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by. — Avijeet Das

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

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

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. — Chris Campanioni

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ... — Chris Campanioni

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us. — J.R. Rim

Authors can alter your life. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out. — Lucinda Williams

When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice. — Cheryl Strayed

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor

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

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. — Taylor Swift

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

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. — Yiyun Li

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. — Leigh Newman

If you want to write about life, you have to write about death. — Marty Rubin

In order to write about life first you must live it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. — Charlotte Eriksson

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset. — Denis Leary

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about. — Alice Munro

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate. — Howie Mandel

It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it — Alfred Lansing

The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape. — Gina Greenlee

Real life doesn't live up to writing about it — Jeffrey Eugenides

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. — Jarvis Cocker

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough
I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too. — Nicole Christie

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old. — Chris Crutcher

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life. — Solomon Woytowich

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. — Joyce Carol Oates

When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about. — Sanhita Baruah

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. — Eugene Ionesco

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. — Dani Shapiro

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories — Michael Biondi

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. — Ted Hughes

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers. — Don Roff

On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people. — Gwen Stefani

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned. — Jeffrey A. Carver

Read something worth writing about or write something worth reading about — Anonymous

Write what you want to write; don't fear about who will read it. — Debasish Mridha

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it. — Theodora Goss

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. — David Foster Wallace

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about. — Sharon Delarose

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. — Tobias Wolff

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about ... only out of time to write it in. — Rayne Hall

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America. — August Wilson

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. — Benjamin Franklin

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide. — Lana Del Rey

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry. — Stella McCartney

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. — Avijeet Das

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments. — Natalia Kills

Write what you believe to be true; don't worry about who agrees or disagrees with you. — Debasish Mridha

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ... — Erica Jong

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,
life in the public streets. — Horace Mann

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same. — John L'Heureux

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write. — Christy Hall

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. — Enya

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start. — Ray Bradbury

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

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

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

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. — Christy Hall

Truths about writing can be framed before you've published a word; truths about life can be framed only when it's too late to make any difference. — Julian Barnes

Ninety percent of writing is about listening. — Natalie Goldberg

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

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote. — Elizabeth McCracken

There are only two things to write about: life and death. — Edward Albee

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire

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

If you can't talk about, write about it! — Tracey Reddick

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters

We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions. — Celia Brayfield

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer. — Robert Rodriguez

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. — Taylor Swift

Life would be so simple if we could re-write the bad parts but since we can't, let's make the good parts worth writing about — Sharlay

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.' — Elizabeth McCracken

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

There's two kinds of women
those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable — Alfred Lansing

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. — Nancy K. Miller

Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot. — Sarah Richards

Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer! — Samuel Colbran

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. — E. M. Forster

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about. — Hanya Yanagihara

Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you. — Stacy Buck

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Ann Marie Aguilar

I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own. — Airam

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical. — Patricia Hampl