Certain Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

— William Styron

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Stephen King

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 does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

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

— Julia Cameron

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

— Lawrence Wright

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is…

— Betsy Lerner

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.

— Julien Baker