Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
It's so difficult writing about living people.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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.