Quotes About Writing

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.