Art Quote by Hubert Selby, Jr

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

— John McPhee

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of…

— Henry Miller

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

— Henry Miller

“Writing is a part of life that has to be explored.”

— P.S. Winn

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order…

— Mark Kingwell

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Stephen King

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

— Eric Maisel

Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life. It is…

— Lorrie Moore

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems…

— Elias Canetti

“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.”

— H.P. Oliver

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

— Gustave Flaubert