Quote by Oscar Wilde

“or maybe people just like to overpraise a famous name.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I was born with out name, but i will die with a fame.”

— Hanuk Biswa

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

— Peter Duncan

“found himself marveling at how many different names there are in this world. All individual, most pronounceable. Think of that.”

— Donald E. Westlake

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings.”

— Jordan Christy

“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

— Francis Bacon

“ became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”

— Henry R. Luce

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“Writing is a passion. Nurture it. Fame is incidental.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

“Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”

— Dejan Stojanovic