A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
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've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
You can't die with an unfinished book.