Biographers Quote by Laura Furman

“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

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

— Stephen King

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

— John Cage

It is only the dead who do not return.

— Alexandre Dumas

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are…

— Samuel Johnson

An author departs; he does not die.

— Anonymous

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

— Kathy Reichs

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

— Paul Weller

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

— Seneca the Younger

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily…

— Julian Barnes

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

— Rumer Godden

U CAN'T spend your life in the grave yard of guilt dealing with the corpses of the past. Know when things are dead, Know…

— Bubbles