Quotes / Died During Production

"Shortly after this, Mikey was mauled by a walrus. His podcast never came into fruition."

—Studio C, "Starting a Podcast"

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charactry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...

—John Keats, "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be."

Having lost its storyteller, the tale is now wandering in search of its conclusion

— Princess Tutu

"As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward, escape for Arthur and his knights seems hopeless... when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack! (cut to an animator tensing up and falling straight backwards) The cartoon peril is no more. The quest for the Holy Grail could continue."

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"It's tough to blame Robert Holmes for dying, given this story."

—El Sandifer on Doctor Who, "The Ultimate Foe"

"...I hope Paul Reubens plans on filming this shit in Heaven, because you can’t make a new Pee-wee movie without Large Marge, Hobo Jack, and the bitchy Alamo tour guide! Especially the bitchy Alamo tour guide! Pee-wee is NOTHING without hearing Jan Hooks giggle-hiss out 'Thayres no baysement at the Ahlahmow!'"

—Michael K., "Paul Reubens Confirms That Another Pee-wee Herman Movie Is Definitely Happening"

"I was with this good friend of mine when we heard (Stephen King) got popped. Man, we just started shaking our heads and saying, 'There goes the Tower, it's tilting, it's falling — aw, shit, he'll never finish it now.'"

— An anonymous Michigander confessing to his fears for The Dark Tower. Happily, Stephen got better.

"N.B. While working on this fugue, where the name B.A.C.H. appears in the countersubject, the composer died."

— note by C.P.E. Bach in the autograph of The Art of the Fugue

"After all, as some of you like to point out in your emails, I am sixty years old and fat, and you don't want me to 'pull a Robert Jordan' on you and deny you your book."

— George R.R. Martin on A Dance with Dragons

"Art is long and life is short."

—Quoted by Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, who wasn't sure if he'd finish The Treasury Of David before he died (he eventually did)

"Hey, Eddheads. We have some bad news..."

— Thomas Ridgewell announcing the death of Edd Gould

"Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died."

— Athuro Toscanini, at the premiere of Turandot, though the exact words he said are different depending on who you ask

"And slowly... Ever so slowly... The ancient crypt door creeps open... And from the festering brine of the darkest darkness, crawled forth monsters of such vile nature, whose appearance was so hideous and threatening, that the author died trying to recount them in this novel!"

— SpongeBob SquarePants, "Night Light"

"Now, as you are no doubt aware, our own Mr. Charles Dickens was full halfway through the creation of The Greatest Mystery Novel Of Our Time, when he committed the one ungenerous deed of his noble career: he died."

— The Chairman, Drood

"And Freddie at that time said 'Write me stuff... I know I don't have very long; keep writing me words, keep giving me things I will sing, then you can do what you like with it afterwards, you know; finish it off' and so I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of 'Mother Love', and every time I gave him another line he'd sing it, sing it again, and sing it again, so we had three takes for every line, and that was it... and we got the last verse and he said 'I'm not up to this, and I need to go away and have a rest, I'll come back and finish it off...' and he never came back."

— Brian May

"O cursed Eld the cankerworme of writs,
How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare,
Hope to endure, sith workes of heauenly wits
Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits?"

— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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