How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead Quotes

“Nourish the world with your words, yo.”
― Ariel Gore, How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights

“Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.”
― Ariel Gore, How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights

“It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried burritos.
It's true that you can get away with drinking and smoking and sunbathing when you're in your teens and twenties, and it's true that rock stars are free to die at twenty-nine, but a lit star needs a long life.”
― Ariel Gore, How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights