I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
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I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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