Composing Quote by Christopher Hitchens

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— J. D. Salinger

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word,…

— Nathan Englander

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

— Santosh Kalwar

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at…

— William T. Vollmann

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought…

— Jesse Michaels

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

— Andrew Motion

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a…

— Julia Cameron