Body Quote by Patrick deWitt

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

— Pierre Berton

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him…

— Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him…

— Robert Benchley

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

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have…

— Richard Meltzer

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

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

— Stephen King

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

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

— Rumer Godden

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a…

— Carlos Fuentes