Alive Quote by Octavia Butler

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

— Brooks Atkinson

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to…

— Rupi Kaur

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

— John McPhee

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

— W. A. H. Rushton

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

— Colum McCann

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

— Jules Renard

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel