Quotes About Writing

In order to write about life first you must live it.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.