Ten years Quote by Paul Collins

“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or…

— Thomas C. Foster

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct…

— Joel Achenbach

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

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

— Stephen King

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an…

— Alison Weir

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I…

— Tahereh Mafi

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