Book Quote by 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

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

— William Goldman

An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you…

— Ravi Subramanian

Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting fired, promoted,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and…

— Harlan Ellison

Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow…

— Patrick deWitt

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

— Rumer Godden

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

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

— Jose Saramago

“Books exceed authors' lifespan.”

— Toba Beta