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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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

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

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

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink. — Alane Adams

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

Research is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING — Rayne Hall

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

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

Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life. — Sofia Kennedy

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. — Dennis R. Miller

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

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

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

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

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world. — Tarang Sinha

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

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. — Tobias Wolff

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

The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. — Kyle Muntz

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

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. — Christy Hall

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

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

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 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

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. — Stephen King

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

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

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

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. — Woody Allen