Choices Quote by Nicole Krauss

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— 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

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

The way to write well is to live intensely.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

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 well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all…

— Anonymous

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

— Bernard Malamud

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up…

— Nathan Englander

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins