Death Quote by Howard Nemerov

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

— Ferdowsi

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes

No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the…

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Alice Hoffman

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it…

— Jean Rhys

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

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

— Charles Bukowski

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

— Julio Cortazar

An author departs; he does not die.

— Anonymous