Write for Your Life Quotes

“And don’t you, as do I, wish that person had left such a thing behind? Doesn’t that argue for doing that yourself, no matter how terrifying or impossible writing may sometimes seem? It doesn’t really matter what you say. It matters that you said it.”
― Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life

“When she got older, my mother, who was not a sentimental type at all, started to play around with poems. They weren’t very good poems, but at every occasion she would write a poem and give it to us. And those are completely and utterly treasured.” Her voice soft and warm and a little plaintive, she added, “Writing is the gift of your presence forever.”
― Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life

“Solitude can lead to a tunnel within ourselves at the end of which is a room we didn't even know was there.”
― Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life

“Writing is the gift of your presence forever.”
― Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life

“People to whom you could/should write letters: your mother and father your sisters and brothers your best friend the teacher who changed your life the nurse who cared for you in the hospital”
― Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life

“Does anyone write texts or emails as substantial or as telling as what we find in the letters of the past?”
― Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life