Alive Quote by Tennessee Williams

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

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

— Charles Bukowski

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

— Anthony Browne

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

— Paul Weller

I feel that my work comes alive all the time.

— Eduardo Risso

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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

— Christopher Hitchens

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

— Michael Musto

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

“I remain a work in progress and will be to the day i die”

— Connor Franta

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

— J. D. Salinger