Childre Quote by Piroska Rodriguez

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

“Writing is breathing life into forgotten memories.”

— Ksenia Anske

“If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem…

— Nicholas Sparks

“You can only write well ,what you have lived.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties,…

— Bernhard Schlink

“I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories”

— Michael Biondi

“While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...”

— Dodie Smith

“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

“It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives…

— Kasie West

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing…

— Chuck Klosterman