Book Quote by Ed Byrne

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Robert Byrne

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing.…

— Kobo Abe

“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits.…

— Gerald Martin

“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,…

— Michael Anthony

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

— Herman Wouk

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one…

— Dane Cook

A suicide note written by somebody who is not suicidal is an autobiography.

— Dane Cook

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

— Ernest Hemingway

A book is a suicide postponed.

— Anonymous