Best way Quote by Nadine Gordimer

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after…

— Annie Dillard

Write as if your parents are dead.

— Anne Lamott

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

— Laura Wade

Write as if you were dying.

— Annie Dillard

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

— Erica Jong

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

— Anne Enright

Write as if you are dying.

— Annie Dillard

I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas,…

— Amy Tan

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

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

— Patti Smith

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record…

— Michael Holroyd

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are…

— Dorothy Allison