Life Quote by Anne Roiphe

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and…

— Virginia Postrel

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

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

— Dani Shapiro

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do…

— Julien Green

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

Life is raw material... We are artisans.. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness.. It's in our hands ...

— Pacifiersucker

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we…

— Anonymous

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud