Dead Quote by Jack Kerouac

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary…

— Paul Di Filippo

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Sympathy is wasted on the dead”

— Tobias Wade

“O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses…

— George Eliot

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

“Whenever you are being praised, remember it is not you who is being praised but Christ, to whom all praise belongs.”

— Martin Luther

“The words sounded like a mournful incantation.”

— Dan Simmons

“Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!”

— Hilary Mantel

“I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.”

— Sherman Alexie

“How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.”

— Lily Koppel

“Honor the dead, treasure the living. For we are saved for a later grave to receive Thy eternal grace.”

— Kenyatta Kelechi

“Be Patient. For what was written for you was written by the greatest of writers.”

— Islamic