World War I in Literature - Life Writing

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or writing:

“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“For me, writing something down was the only road out.”
—Anne Tyler (b. 1941)