Because Quote by Tobias Wolff

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.”

— Ksenia Anske

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

— Samuel Ervin Beam