Another day Quote by Elif Batuman

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a…

— Margaret Atwood

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that…

— Mordecai Richler

“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same…

— Kathy Acker

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

— Alex Lemon

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

— Stephen King

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to…

— Cynthia Ozick

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be…

— Jerome Lawrence

“You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.”

— Alice Hoffman

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were…

— Jules Feiffer