Writing Life Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead. — Warren Adler
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a… — Graham Swift
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and… — Julia Alvarez
Lehman uses many conveyancesâ€”including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesâ€”to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. — Eric Maisel
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree… — George Eliot
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable… — Benjamin Franklin
Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are,… — Natalie Goldberg
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he… — Mark Twain
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very… — Athol Fugard
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself.… — Dani Shapiro
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep… — Samuel Beckett
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary… — Orson Scott Card
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law… — John Lescroart
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive… — Tea Obreht
The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not. — Jayne Anne Phillips
I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum… — Donald Miller

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