“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas Copy Share Image
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Love is a Power, Love is a Prayer and Love is a Peace. I Have met different kind of people, deals with… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
They say you spend your whole life re-writing the first poem you ever loved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him -… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
