Delayed Quote by Anais Nin

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”

— Kimberly Killion

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

— Dani Shapiro

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from…

— Jane Smiley

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again.…

— Natalie Goldberg

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

— John McPhee

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King