Beats Quote by Terence Blacker

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a…

— Sophie Kinsella

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems…

— Alan Moore

I'm doing what I've always wanted to do: being a mum, writing, living in the country, having a happy time.

— Sophie Dahl

The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting…

— Yasmin Ahmad

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with…

— Charles Bukowski

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises… If you…

— Toni Morrison

I would go to the studio and then I'd go back on tour and then I would come off and go on. And so…

— Maisie Peters

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I…

— Nicole Krauss

Every book in here I wrote, Some I'm not too proud of some I wish I could burn, So many pages I wrote, wish…

— Frank Ocean

“I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am. Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.”

— Michael Berish