Dead Authors Quotes

#1. Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown works of Cicero, he wrote Cicero the news.

David Markson

#2. You don't read books by living people?" "Living authors don't have any merit." "Why's that?" "Dead authors, as a rule, seem more trusting than live ones.

Anonymous

#3. The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.

Richard Armour

#5. Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Thomas C. Foster

#6. If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

Eric San

#7. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. Investing in yourself is the best way to utilize time

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work.

William T. Vollmann

#10. I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gin Wigmore

#11. You're an incredible woman, Lela. I would battle a thousand Terrademons to reach your heart. But I cannot challenge or defeat an enemy that's already dead. I cannot fight for a heart that doesn't want to be won.

N.D. Jones

#12. I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

Mark Twain

#13. There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

George Eliot

#14. I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

Kara Walker

#15. Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history - and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Billy Graham

#16. Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.

Mario Puzo

#17. I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#18. Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

Gail Carson Levine

#19. The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

#20. Living well is the best revenge (Margot Radcliffe)

Laura Moore

#21. Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way?

Jeffrey Gitomer

#22. I'll just say right here that whoever thought up the idea of paying dead white authors by the word should have a special place in hell with the rest of the sadists.

Heather W. Petty

#23. If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.

Sheeja Jose

#24. Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is the need to say anything? The very need shows that the happiness is unreal and imaginary.

Rajneesh

#25. August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

Elizabeth Spencer

#26. I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.

Jonathan Winters

#27. There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

Carol Morgan

#28. When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#29. She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained.
"Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together.
"It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

Ally Carter

#30. I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#31. Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

Takuan Soho

#32. Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.

Paula Cohen

#33. The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.

Pope Francis