Living People Quotes

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

We should not put up statues of living people. We make ourselves hostage to fortune.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident: 'That the earth belongs in usufruct to the living;' that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it...

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.