Party Quote by Fran Lebowitz

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

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

— James T. Farrell

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

— Warren Ellis

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

— Salman Rushdie

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

— George S. Kaufman

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

— Anonymous

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

— Greta Garbo