Among Quote by Tom Rachman

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

— Arianna Huffington

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

— Bill Paxton

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

One of the more morbid parts of the journalism business is the process of writing obituaries. Oftentimes, for older celebrities or historic figures, there's…

— Jason Johnson

Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It gets the…

— Megan Abbott

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something…

— Padgett Powell

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

— Charles Wheelan

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's…

— Peter Robinson

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there…

— Akhil Sharma

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

— Walter Cronkite

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all…

— Jim Beaver