Writing Your Own Life Quotes
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
The writer's life is frightful
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?
— Beth Moore
Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes
— Pamela Morris
Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Details are the Life of Prose.
— Jack Kerouac
That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.
— Paul Park
You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires.
— Naoyuki Ochiai
Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
— Carla H. Krueger
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.
— Tristan Prettyman
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
— Cameron Crowe
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -
— David Shields
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
— Enya
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
— Jonathan Heatt
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there.
— Paul Auster
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
— John Taylor Gatto
This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.
— Chrys Fey
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
— Solomon Woytowich
Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook
— Richie Sambora
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
— Nicholas Jarecki
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.
— Chloe Thurlow
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Genetic code is a divine writing.
— Toba Beta
I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting.
— Laura Quinn
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
— Tupac Shakur
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
— Kathleen Madigan
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you.
— Christy Hall
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
— Sarah Dessen
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
— Derek Raymond
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
— Britt Holewinski
An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
— Gina Greenlee
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
— Ethan Hawke
My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it.
— Carla H. Krueger
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Discovery's friend is creativity
— Phillip Gary Smith