Life Writing Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is… — Sylvia Plath
Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him… — Evelyn Waugh
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of… — Ignazio Silone
I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do… — Samuel Beckett
I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts… — Michael Scott
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. — Lemon Andersen
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are… — Julie Klausner

Who Wrote These Life Writing Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Life Writing Quotes as follows: