Quotes About Writing

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.

At school, at home, in bars, I was an emotional contortionist, alternating between awkward self-aggrandizing and trying to win favor so as to fit in. When I wrote, I let myself be dead honest, flaws and all. But I was myself, I felt real. I went inside myself when a pen was in my hand and enjoyed that space in there.

I hope the teacher doesn't say, 'Write an essay about your summer vacation.' If she does, I'll leave the paper blank. Else I'll have to lie. Say eviction is the best vacation. Hearing Ma weeping and Pa wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier, double-time, and Ray holds my hand. I never lie. I won't. It's better to keep quiet.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.