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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.
— Pat Conroy
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
— Flannery O'Connor
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
— Isabel Allende
The writer's life is frightful
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?
— Beth Moore
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
— Rose Wilder Lane
Poetry is the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
— Miriam Elia
A book lives a new life every time it is read.
— Brandon Sanderson
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
— Hallie Burnett
Writing is my pleasure and the play,
where I find myself again and again. — Debasish Mridha
where I find myself again and again. — Debasish Mridha
Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.
— Fennel Hudson
In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.
— Nicolas Billon
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
— Anne Roiphe
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
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
Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
— Ashley Ormon
Writing is a way of life.
— Kayla Lowe
Imagination is a spark of a divine light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Creativity is salve for the soul
— Phillip Gary Smith
Every experience is story to be written.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
— C.S. Lewis
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.
— Chila Woychik
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.
— Piroska Rodriguez
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
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
The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
— Julia Cameron
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
— Anne Lamott
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
— Robert Hass
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent
Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
— Euginia Herlihy
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
Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create.
— Shannon Lynette
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
— Eric Maisel
The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious.
— Maurice Blanchot
The movement
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst
It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
— Wallace Stegner
No.'
It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering. — Christy Hall
It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering. — Christy Hall
No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.
— Johnathan Jena
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
— Ray Bradbury
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield
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
Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.
— Robert Holden
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
— Kayla Rae Whitaker
The end is everything.
— Arthur K. Flam
Love is a book and a light to read it by.
— Peter Hubbard
The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -
— David Shields
The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.
— Chloe Thurlow
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
My life on earth is personal journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Discovery's friend is creativity
— Phillip Gary Smith
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
— Sarah Dessen
I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting.
— Laura Quinn
Genetic code is a divine writing.
— Toba Beta
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
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
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time
life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. — Holly Lisle
life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. — Holly Lisle
Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell
— Mason Currey
My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
— John Updike
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
— Joseph Conrad
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
Learning is essential for living the life you love.
— A.D. Posey
Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
— Natalie Goldberg
So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.
— Robert Pollard
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
— Larry Brooks
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
— Nick Cave
Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.
— Guy Kawasaki
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
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
— Miriam Toews