Black Quote by Christopher Priest

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that…

— Sonakshi Sinha

I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and that to…

— Lauren Groff

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

I think if it is written well, it really doesn't matter what the genre is and what it is all about as long as…

— Arshad Warsi

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

— Gary Shteyngart

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley