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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
— Richard Peck
The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom.
— Subhan Zein
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen.
— Sandra J. Jackson
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
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
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
My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.
— James Patterson
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
— Hallie Burnett
Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes
— Pamela Morris
Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.
— Christy Hall
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In order to write about life first you must live it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Details are the Life of Prose.
— Jack Kerouac
Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.
— Drew Myron
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
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
Sometimes, we think faster than what you write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
— Sterling W. Sill
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
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
— Carla H. Krueger
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
For me, writing was the only way out.
— Anne Tyler
If you can't talk about, write about it!
— Tracey Reddick
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
Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
— Cameron Crowe
There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.
— Pandora Gray
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
— Peter McWilliams
When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.
— Cara Colter
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
— Isabel Allende
Be a great writer when you write your life's song.
— Debasish Mridha
Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
— Avijeet Das
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
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
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
Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
I don't make the rules, I just make it up.
— L. Davyd Pollack
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
— Orson Scott Card
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
— Nick Cave
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
— Manuel Rivas
Writing,Reading,Working and Loving People. That's My life.
— Ahmed Farrag
Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.
— Magus Tor
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
— Derek Raymond
Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -
— David Shields
Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.
— Chloe Thurlow
Discovery's friend is creativity
— Phillip Gary Smith
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it.
— Carla H. Krueger
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
— Ethan Hawke
An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
— Gina Greenlee
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
— Britt Holewinski
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
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
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you.
— Christy Hall
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
— Kathleen Madigan
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
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
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
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
— Robert Benson
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
— Michelle D. Kwasney
The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.
— Beem Weeks
My life on earth is personal journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
— Ariel Gore
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
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.
— Tristan Prettyman
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer