Dies Quote by Annie Dillard

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business…

— Virginia Woolf

As the dead lingers around, the living person suffers in the end

— Anonymous

Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will…

— Sylvia Plath

The living can assist the imagination of the dead...

— William Butler Yeats

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to…

— E. B. White

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily…

— Julian Barnes

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

— Tina Fey

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman