And then I realize I am the writer. I don't mean because I…

“I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.”

— John Irving

“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

“Of the six million species on the planet, only man makes language. Words. What's more--in evidence of the Divine--we string those symbols together and…

— Charles Martin

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

— Erica Jong

“If I could sum up the lives of people like me—people whose parents don’t write books, whose aunties and cousins don’t step onto college…

— Daisy Hernandez

“Julian curses his fixation: Ultimately, he should have his time writing down the conversations that floated up from the bar beneath the apartment he…

— Alejandro Zambra

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

— Leos Carax

“There’s always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional,…

— Henning Mankell

Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor…

— Julia Cameron

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

— Harry Belafonte

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to…

— Julius Lester

“Story is the bandage of the broken. Sutures of the shattered. The tapestry upon which we write our lives. Upon which we lay the…

— Charles Martin

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile…

— Julia Cameron

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

— Frances Ridley Havergal

“We are always young to know the story of our lives.”

— Himanshu Chhabra