Death Quote by Clint Van Winkle

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.”

— T.L. Rese

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was…

— Kara Martinelli

“Your life is a story, so how are you writing it?”

— Marie Guillaume

“I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to…

— David Rakoff

“I don’t think of myself as a writer. I’m troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead…

— Mian Mian

“My reasons for writing had to be my own, divorced from expectation.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover…

— John Fowles

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

— Helene Wecker