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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

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

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

Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes — Pamela Morris

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

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

Details are the Life of Prose. — Jack Kerouac

That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal. — Paul Park

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

Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is a sacred story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in. — Cameron Crowe

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it - — David Shields

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

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting. — Jonathan Heatt

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. — Paul Auster

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. — Neale Donald Walsch

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. — John Taylor Gatto

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

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

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook — Richie Sambora

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. — Nicholas Jarecki

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

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

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

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

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever. — Don Roff

Genetic code is a divine writing. — Toba Beta

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

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

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

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage. — Kathleen Madigan

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

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

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother. — Debasish Mridha

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

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond

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

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

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

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it. — Carla H. Krueger

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Discovery's friend is creativity — Phillip Gary Smith

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams