Believe Quote by Sally Rooney

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

— Dani Shapiro

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

Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

— Eric Maisel

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling.

— Frank Peretti

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what…

— Sune Rose Wagner

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic…

— Hari Kunzru

I mean there's something I have achieved in life, even if it's little, and if people write about it, then it's fine.

— Siddharth Shukla

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

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow