Ideas Quote by Nathan Englander

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

— Julia Cameron

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

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

— Stephen King