Alive Quote by Robert Christgau

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

— Patrick deWitt

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it…

— Don DeLillo

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

— James Fallows

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

— Alex Lemon

Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They…

— Claud Cockburn

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on…

— Chuck Palahniuk