Death Quote by Franz Kafka

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

— Patti Smith

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

— Paul O'Grady

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let…

— Elif Batuman

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

— Charles Bukowski

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in…

— Graham Swift

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

— Anonymous

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

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

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,…

— Kiki Dimoula