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title: "80 Life Writing Quotes by 74 authors"
description: "Browse 80 Life Writing quotes by 74 authors. Discover the best Life Writing sayings and thoughts."
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> [“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-henegan/my-life-as-well-as-my-writing-are-guided-by-creed-in-lieu-of-clich-s-2/)

[Carl Henegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-henegan/)

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> [Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/dreams-are-letters-from-the-book-your-life-is-writing/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/i-m-very-unhappy-about-my-entire-life-if-my-writing-is-going-wrong/)

[Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/)

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> [Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keshia-chante/live-your-life-as-if-you-are-writing-your-biography/)

[Keshia Chante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keshia-chante/)

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> [That's what my life is, writing songs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cale/that-s-what-my-life-is-writing-songs/)

[John Cale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cale/)

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> [I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-dessen/i-ve-found-in-my-own-life-that-if-my-writing-isn-t-going-well-not/)

[Sarah Dessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-dessen/)

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> [Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-wilhelm-friedrich-schlegel/life-is-writing-the-sole-purpose-of-mankind-is-to-engrave-the/)

[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-wilhelm-friedrich-schlegel/)

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> [Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bush/whatever-is-going-on-in-your-life-when-you-re-writing-has-to-somehow/)

[Kate Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bush/)

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> [I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nayvadius-cash/i-don-t-read-blogs-i-m-living-the-life-they-re-writing-about-so-why/)

[Nayvadius Cash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nayvadius-cash/)

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> [It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-newman/it-s-much-harder-when-you-re-writing-about-your-life-than-when-you-re/)

[Leigh Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-newman/)

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> [I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowie/i-think-generally-i-just-cannot-really-envision-life-without-writing/)

[David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bowie/)

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> [“It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/it-seems-to-me-now-that-my-life-is-writing-be-it-only-words-without/)

[Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/)

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> [Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/manuel-rivas/do-you-like-reading-it-s-the-best-thing-that-can-happen-to-you-in/)

[Manuel Rivas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/manuel-rivas/)

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> [The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amber-benson/the-acting-is-something-that-will-always-be-a-part-of-my-life-but-the/)

[Amber Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amber-benson/)

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> [You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/you-ask-me-why-i-spend-my-life-writing-do-i-find-entertainment-is-it/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/exerting-yourself-to-the-fullest-within-your-individual-limits-that-s-2/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-archer/i-ve-been-doing-nineteen-hours-a-day-on-london-nothing-else-i-mean/)

[Jeffrey Archer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-archer/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-todd/i-m-not-writing-about-the-1-percent-of-people-who-have-this-fairy/)

[Anna Todd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-todd/)

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> [I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathan-englander/i-d-chosen-to-dedicate-my-life-to-writing-and-i-asked-myself-if-you/)

[Nathan Englander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathan-englander/)

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> [I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/i-left-my-job-in-the-fall-and-now-i-can-set-my-life-up-around-writing/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

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> [I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quiara-alegria-hudes/i-think-all-of-the-decisions-i-make-about-my-life-and-writing-are-the/)

[Quiara Alegria Hudes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quiara-alegria-hudes/)

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> [“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kilroy-j-oldster/autobiographical-writing-stands-as-lasting-memorial-for-enduring-the/)

[Kilroy J. Oldster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kilroy-j-oldster/)

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> [You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/you-don-t-want-to-spend-your-life-writing-about-stuff-that-doesn-t/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgard/when-i-started-out-on-min-kamp-i-was-so-extremely-frustrated-over-my/)

[Karl Ove Knausgard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgard/)

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> [The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-main-rule-of-writing-is-that-if-you-do-it-with-enough-assurance/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-abell/it-s-a-little-bit-like-talking-about-the-life-of-writing-the-life-of/)

[Sam Abell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-abell/)

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> [To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-tweedy/to-be-honest-i-m-more-concerned-with-living-my-life-than-writing/)

[Jeff Tweedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-tweedy/)

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> [It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/it-was-not-a-choice-of-writing-or-not-writing-it-was-a-choice-of/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/life-writing-calls-for-any-number-of-dubious-gifts-a-touch-of-o-c-d-a/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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> [“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermione-lee/a-self-that-goes-on-changing-is-a-self-that-goes-on-living-so-too/)

[Hermione Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermione-lee/)

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> [“Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dani-shapiro/still-writing-i-usually-nod-and-smile-then-quickly-change-the-subject/)

[Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dani-shapiro/)

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> [Love is a Power, Love is a Prayer and Love is a Peace. I Have met different kind of people, deals with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nishan-panwar/love-is-a-power-love-is-a-prayer-and-love-is-a-peace-i-have-met/)

[Nishan Panwar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nishan-panwar/)

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> [If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/if-your-way-of-life-is-writing-then-everything-that-happens-becomes-a/)

[Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/)

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> [My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juliana-hatfield/my-whole-life-was-writing-recording-and-touring-over-and-over-again/)

[Juliana Hatfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juliana-hatfield/)

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> [I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/i-write-to-escape-from-my-life-writing-about-men-separates-me-from-my/)

[Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/)

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> [Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lemon-andersen/work-controls-my-life-writing-controls-my-life-performing-controls-my/)

[Lemon Andersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lemon-andersen/)

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> [For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maynard-james-keenan/for-me-life-is-writing-and-i-can-do-it-anywhere-it-doesn-t-matter/)

[Maynard James Keenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maynard-james-keenan/)

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> [They say you spend your whole life re-writing the first poem you ever loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/they-say-you-spend-your-whole-life-re-writing-the-first-poem-you-ever/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ignazio-silone/i-would-willingly-pass-my-life-writing-and-re-writing-the-same-book/)

[Ignazio Silone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ignazio-silone/)

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> [A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-roth/a-life-of-writing-books-is-a-trying-adventure-in-which-you-cannot/)

[Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-roth/)

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                        "text": "“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world’s consciousness.”",
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                        "text": "You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the temporal mediocre and write in a way that is meaningful to everybody. This goes back to this idea of being intimate with your reader. Since we're all down here and we're all dying and aspiring and loving and feeling inadequate, all these things that we all are doing all the time, what a relief it is, when somebody looks at you and says, \"Yeah, me too.\"",
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                        "text": "When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write something majestic and grand, something like 'Hamlet' or 'Moby Dick,' but found myself with this small life - looking after kids, changing diapers, quarreling with my wife, unable to write anything, really.",
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                        "text": "The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.",
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                        "text": "It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.",
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                        "text": "To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.",
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                        "text": "It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority… I worked probably 25 years by myself… Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.",
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                        "text": "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 proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.",
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                        "text": "“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And just as lives don't stay still, so life-writing can't be fixed and finalised. Our ideas are shifting about what can be said, our knowledge of human character is changing. The biographer has to pioneer, going 'ahead of the rest of us, like the miner's canary, testing the atmosphere, detecting falsity, unreality, and the presence of obsolete conventions'. So, 'There are some stories which have to be retold by each generation'. She is talking about the story of Shelley, but she could be talking about her own life-story. (Virginia Woolf, p. 11)”",
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                        "text": "“Still writing?\" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down my fork and say: Yes, yes, I am. I will write until the day I die, or until I am robbed of my capacity to reason. Even if my fingers were to clench and wither, even if I were to grow deaf or blind, even if I were unable to move a muscle in my body save for the blink of one eye, I would still write. Writing saved my life. Writing has been my window -- flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence -- my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. Writing has extended that grasp by pushing me beyond comfort, beyond safety, past my self-perceived limits. It has softened my heart and hardened my intellect. It has been a privilege. It has whipped my ass. It has burned into me a valuable clarity. It has made me think about suffering, randomness, good will, luck, memory responsibility, and kindness, on a daily basis -- whether I feel like it or not. It has insisted that I grow up. That I evolve. It has pushed me to get better, to be better. It is my disease and my cure. It has allowed me not only to withstand the losses in my life but to alter those losses -- to chip away at my own bewilderment until I find the pattern in it. Once in a great while, I look up at the sky and think that, if my father were alive, maybe he would be proud of me. That if my mother were alive, I might have come up with the words to make her understand. That I am changing what I can. I am reaching a hand out to the dead and to the living and the not yet born. So yes. Yes. Still writing.”",
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                        "text": "Love is a Power, Love is a Prayer and Love is a Peace. I Have met different kind of people, deals with different minds and struggle with different facts of life but still I don't know it's a Heart or a Brain who memorizes things. I have never thought of writing in my life and after writing I never know how writing will become the most important part of my life or how it becomes the only medium with whom I can share things which earlier I used to kept with myself. But yes one thing I want to share with you all is I have never written things to get Fame, I have started writing because once in a life I need a person who can listen not someone who can hear. We all waste our life in finding love instead of making love and what result in the end we die with a broken heart remembering all the broken promises made by people we met throughout our life.",
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