Humor Quote by G.M. Malliet

“If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist…

— Susan Griffin

“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the…

— Mark Twain

“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the…

— Laura Furman

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

“One’s own dead are more than cadavers, they are place holders for the living. They are a focus, a receptacle, for emotions that no…

— Mary Roach

“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven…

— George R.R. Martin

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

— S. S. Van Dine

“I liked the idea of marking the place where a life ends as opposed to the place a corpse is buried. And also the…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

The mortician interviewing the corpses

— Eugene McCarthy

“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting such store…

— Terry Pratchett

“how that is the corpse's powerful capability That rupture The deaths of those disappeared and murdered by the State / and the bodies of…

— Carrie Lorig