J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

Art is longer than life.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

I will die, but not retire.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

At the end of the day, when Charlie Murphy ain't here no more, I'll have a body of work that people can laugh and remember me by.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

I shall not altogether die.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.