Exception Quote by Salman Rushdie

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

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

— Stephen King

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

— Rebecca West

“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell you why,…

— William Saroyan

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

— Junot Diaz

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

Writers are not meant for action.

— Manuel Puig

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother…

— William Faulkner