Quotes About Writing

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.