Ifs Quote by Decca Aitkenhead

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

— Stephen King

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

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

— Stephen King

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater