Quotes About Writing

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

I'll never retire as long as I live—that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.