You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.
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You can't die with an unfinished book.
If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Don't go to the grave with life unused.
Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
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