Jane Espenson (1964) American television writer and producer
"Jane Espenson - Interviewed at the Buffy soundstage" at BBC (23 August 2001) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/espenson/printpage.html
“Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy.”
Telegram to his brother, upon the news that Addison was fatally ill.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
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“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”
V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)
“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.
“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”
Robert Orben (1928) American magician and writer
Henry Allen (January 4, 1979) "Life in the Laugh Factory", The Washington Post, p. B1.
“I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Ba Jin: A Century of Literary Greatness" at the China Internet Information Center (November 2003) http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Nov/80700.htm
“I am ready, but only on one condition. Once I start writing, you should not stop dictating to me.”
Vyasa central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions
Ganesha to Vyasa on the latter’s request to him to write down his narration of Mahabharata. Quoted in p. 139.
Sources, Hindu Culture, An Introduction
“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”
Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye
Source: Ham on Rye
