Announcements Quote by Harold Brodkey

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

— Elizabeth Bishop

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around…

— Anais Nin

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

— Joseph Barbera

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

— Andy Grove

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Andrew Motion

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

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody…

— Ned Beauman

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

— Joni Mitchell