Killing yourself Quote by Paul Giamatti

“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,…

— Michael Anthony

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without…

— E. L. Doctorow

I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive,…

— Matthew Quick

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

— Garth Greenwell

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about…

— David Duchovny

“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the…

— Truman Capote

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition…

— Alain de Botton

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”

— Robert Byrne

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille