Clusters Quote by E. B. White

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

— Stephen King

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

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

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

— William Goldman

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem…

— James A. Baldwin

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

— Alex Lemon

People die, but books never die.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

— Mason Cooley

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

— Rebecca West

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to…

— John Berger