Awake Quote by Patti Smith

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk…

— Franz Kafka

“Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. I got over the loss of his…

— Patti Smith

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

— Jenny Offill

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a…

— Margaret Atwood

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

— T. S. Eliot

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

— Arthur Plotnik

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be…

— Jerome Lawrence

“A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.”

— Victoria Schwab