But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were increasingly mental, and anyway, to the Unconscious, what was death? Dreams did not recognize it.

Saul Bellow
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It’s easy to say that if you die you will be dead, but if you write a story about a character dying what will you do? Will you write it as a story? Or will you write it as a person trying to make sense of the tragedy that has happened to them.

Source: Herzog

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