Childhood Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“You can only write well ,what you have lived.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“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

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we…

— Marcel Proust

“... oh boo hoo , everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing…

— Chuck Klosterman

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.”

— Daniel Sean Kaye

“Writing. Is it a way to be remembered, or a need to become immortal?”

— Toba Beta