We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
You can write a story with a pencil, but ultimately, you write your life with a pen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards. — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
You must know who you are, It is a challenge by far, You must be strong, let no one tell you youre… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl 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
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“You can know all about a person from the things they collect, the books on their shelves, the chairs in their parlor.… — Lynda Rutledge Copy Share Image
I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Then I knew what the trouble was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A poem I just came up with titled:{IF I COULD RE-WRITE MY OWN LIFE}~~~>If I could re-write my own life,Mann…if I could… — Malcolm Cleveland Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t perfect, and I made mistakes; but I learned from them and became a better person for it. I always followed… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not… — Gloria Anzaldua Copy Share Image
“Before, I thought we could write about life only when we had recovered from our wounds; when we were able to touch… — Ahlam Mosteghanemi Copy Share Image
“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… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight. — Albert King Copy Share Image
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities -Pablo Valle — Pablo Valle Copy Share Image