Quotes About Writing

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

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

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Life would split apart without letters.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.