The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.
Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer he’d locked me away. / He’d murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me.
A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.
