Always Quote by Bill Paxton

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with…

— Tom Rachman

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

— Walter Cronkite

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

— Charles Wheelan

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

— William Faulkner

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of…

— Spencer Abraham

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it…

— Tony Kushner

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something…

— Padgett Powell

I'm a huge Obituary fan.

— Max Cavalera

When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the…

— Ben Dolnick

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my…

— Stephen King