Chairs Quote by John D'Agata

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

— Mary Roach

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

— Garrison Keillor

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

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

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk…

— Franz Kafka

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

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