Yu spent his whole life writing.

余一生都在写作。

youdao

He's spent his life writing this book.

他用了一辈子的功夫写这本书。

youdao

So I came home, geographically and emotionally, to spend the most productive years of my life writing and teaching in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.

所以我回到家乡，把人生黄金阶段用于写作和在洛杉矶的南加州大学教书。 从情感上讲，这是我最丰富的阶段；从地域上说，在这里我写的最多。

youdao

But he spent the rest of his life painting pictures of the west and writing about it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

And I encourage all of you to take a moment today to perhaps sit and let something happen to your own writing or your own spiritual life.

我希望大家今天都能抽空,坐下来，等待奇迹,发生在您的写作中，或者您的精神生活中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."

无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It takes a case of supreme arrogance to think that you can do better than the author of a book who spent a large chunk of his life writing and revising the story and go ahead and invent scenes and dialogue and alter events in the manner in which Peter Jackson has chosen to do.

BBC: The Two Towers: Your views

So many characters running, weeping, staring, talking, all the years of his writing life.

ECONOMIST: Ray Bradbury

Some say Sand put more of her imagination into her life than her writing, says Ms Chandernagor.

ECONOMIST: France remembers a prolific author