Curiosity Quote by Lynne Tillman

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

— Rumer Godden

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

— V. S. Naipaul

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

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

— Stephen King

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

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

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens…

— Rumer Godden

You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to…

— Francine Prose