There's a Heinlein quote I'm not finding, to the effect that you should never write the eulogy of a great writer and risk the conclusion that it would have been

There's a Heinlein quote I'm not finding, to the effect that you should never write the eulogy of a great writer and risk the conclusion that it would have been better if you had died and the great writer had written your eulogy. James Boswell beat that rap. In this magnificent book review Alvaro de Menard convinces me that he almost does too.