Forgotten Works Quotes

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.