Always Quote by Gary Shteyngart

..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

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

— Alex Lemon

I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good…

— Robert Christgau

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

— Salman Rushdie

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

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

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

— Stephen King

We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to…

— E. B. White

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

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