Army Quote by Francine Prose

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

— Ron Chernow

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

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

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

— Stephen King

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

— Stephen Fry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things…

— Dave Barry

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a…

— Carlos Fuentes

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

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