Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.