Adult Quote by Adam Silvera

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

— Hugh Leonard

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer…

— John Updike

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust…

— Laura Mullen

“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one neatly complementing…

— Hope Edelman

While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Grief,” she writes, is “a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative nonfiction must…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an…

— Terry Pratchett

“I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy: I'll…

— Sarah Manguso