Die Quote by Michael Hastings

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Write as if you were dying.

— Annie Dillard

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

— Ray Bradbury

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

Writing gave me the world.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

— Kathy Acker

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

— Douglas Coupland

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

— Junot Diaz

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more…

— Robbie Robertson

Write as if you are dying.

— Annie Dillard

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond