Writing Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,either write things worth reading or do things worth writing..!!

— Anonymous

“Ben Franklin’s excellent advice: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or…

— Timothy Ferriss

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

— Charles Bock

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

— Pamela Harriman

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

— Benjamin Franklin

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are…

— Dorothy Allison

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

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— Diane Setterfield

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

— Leonard Cohen

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

— Joyce Carol Oates