In 2018, the world lost a number of wonderful, talented writers. Together with the entire literary community, we here at Writer’s Relief mourn the loss of these gifted individuals and remember their contributions to the literary community. This tribute does not include every great writer who left us in the past year, so in the comment section below, please share the names of any other noteworthy authors you’d like to remember.
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Harlan Ellison “To say more is to say less.”
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Dave Duncan “People value happiness by what it costs.”
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William Goldman “You can never trust what you read.”
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Donald Hall “We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.”
Stan Lee “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Ursula K. Le Guin “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
Richard Peck “The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.”
Philip Roth “When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.”
Ntozake Shange “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
Tom Wolfe “Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there’s not going to be anything to apologize about.”
Anita Shreve
Hey what about the wonderful
Poet Tony Hoagland who died this fall. His poems were funny and wise and startling.
Thank you for some very thought-provoking quotations.
Being a writer my self I really liked the way images have been portrayed with biographies.