- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
- Nov 07, 2020
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020