Admire Quote by Fran Lebowitz

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Helen Oyeyemi

..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

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

— George S. Kaufman

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not…

— Michael Loceff

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

— Stephen King

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Jim Shepard

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for…

— Ray Bradbury

“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal with the…

— Vanessa Trinita

As an actress I am always interested in the new writers.

— Donna McKechnie