Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

— Dean Koontz

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.

— Noel Riley Fitch

“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.”

— Christopher Herz

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers…

— Laini Taylor

But there's no one here. There's just books. I mean it's not the books, is it? I mean it can't be the books, can…

— Donna Noble

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

— Jodi Picoult

“With her, and only with her, the dead in me is alive.”

— Becca Ritchie

“Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!”

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“I like being alive, but being dead might be an interesting adventure as well.”

— Emma Hamm