Life Quote by Edgar Mangwende

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”

— Kimberly Killion

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s one of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in…

— Robert Musil