Differences Quote by Mark Strand

I would rather be dead than not read

— Annie Proulx

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

— Jonathan Franzen

The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about.

— John Wayne Gacy

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

— John Mortimer

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

— Rumer Godden

I'd rather be dead than think about death.

— Brendan Behan

Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your…

— David Papineau

If you think you're alive then you're better off dead.

— Bring Me The Horizon

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in…

— Ernest Hemingway

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

— Peter Watts

Does it even bother you at all that only 1 person would notice if I was dead?

— Patience