Also Quote by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily…

— Julian Barnes

Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is…

— Suzy Kassem

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

— Billy Collins

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

— John McPhee

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

— Anonymous

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let…

— Elif Batuman

“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor of the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

— Anonymous

“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Mugo

“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same…

— Kathy Acker

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your…

— Micere Githae Mugo

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating,…

— Edna Ferber