Quotes About Writing

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.