Away Quote by Walter Kirn

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can…

— Jane Smiley

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

— Stephen King

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I…

— Terry Pratchett

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the…

— William Styron

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Seneca the Younger

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the…

— Samuel Johnson

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of…

— Anonymous