Life Quote by Nathan Englander

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

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

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write…

— Sarah McLachlan

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same…

— Kathy Acker

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

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

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought…

— Jesse Michaels

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing…

— Anne Frank

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to…

— Elizabeth Berg