Compelled Quote by Yukio Mishima

“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his effect on…

— Albert Camus

“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the…

— Roland Barthes

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

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the…

— John Dos Passos

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

— Umberto Eco

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

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Stephen King

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let…

— Elif Batuman

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring…

— A. C. Bradley