Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.