Writing Quote by Bernhard Schlink

“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in…

— Piroska Rodriguez

“The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“When I got older, I still thought I could write life. I didn't understand, as my mother had just realized that evening, that it…

— Shawna Yang Ryan

“Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.”

— Stefanos Livos

“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to…

— George Orwell

“That’s the funny thing about writing your life story. You start out trying to remember dates and times and names. You think it’s about…

— Kristin Hannah

“Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I…

— Sai Marie Johnson

“The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.”

— John Gardner

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don’t know…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Writing is breathing life into forgotten memories.”

— Ksenia Anske