Life Quote by Jay McInerney

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the…

— Bonnie Greer

“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that…

— Gary Webb

“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying…

— Zaeema J. Hussain

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“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

“I still wanted to prove that I was the best of all the second-rate writers. I refused all further requests to write journalism and…

— Koonchung Chan

“Write about the experiences that made you feel human. And whatever happens, please do continue to live and write. The people of your own…

— Kat Lowe

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal