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I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Write as if you were dying.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

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