As everyone who writes knows, writing definitely gives you a different perspective on life than most people and this is not necessarily a bad thing. As part of a weekly series of Writers' Quotations, here are a few  quotations from different authors on life. Please feel free to share any of your favorite  quotations on life in the comments section and if you would like to take a look at what writers have to say on writing, you can check this out.

Margaret Atwood:  Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Douglas Adams: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Jonathan Franzen:  I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Margaret Atwood:  Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Barry Lopez:  We simply do not understand our place in the world and do not have the courage to admit it.

Tom Robbins:  Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins: It is never to late to have a happy childhood.

Jane Austen:  I do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

Ernest Hemingway:  As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

John Steinbeck:  It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest):  There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free."

Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird):  People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Virginia Woolf:  No one has ever felt passionately about towards a lead pencil. But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one; moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London for tea and dinner.

Mark Twain:  I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Oscar Wilde:  Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

 Samuel Beckett:  Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.

Vladmir Nabakov:  There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Hunter S. Thompson:  I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Dave Barry:  You can only be young once, but you can always be immature.

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