Any Quote by William T. Vollmann

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word,…

— Nathan Englander

Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in the words…

— Jeremy Limn

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

— Neil Diamond

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

— Christopher Hitchens

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg

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

— Charles Bukowski

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought…

— Jesse Michaels

“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

— Junot Diaz

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

— Ray Bradbury