Inspirational Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Stephen King

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

— Dani Shapiro

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”

— Kimberly Killion

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

— Italo Calvino

“Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.”

— Miriam Elia

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word,…

— Nathan Englander

I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there…

— Sylvia Plath

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the…

— Nina Berberova

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

— Gustave Flaubert

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway