Death Quote by Mordecai Richler

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 a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever........”

— Lisa Jones

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.”

— Bohumil Hrabal

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.”

— Lily Koppel

“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.”

— David Mitchell

“Writing is breathing life into forgotten memories.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.”

— R. YS Perez

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr