Care Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

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— Julia Cameron

“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”

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“I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.”

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