I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to…

“Awesome writes great books even if no one is going to read them.”

— Jon Acuff

“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books.…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?” “I’d recommend one by another author.”

— Marc Levy

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

— Eoin Colfer

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

“Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.”

— Burl Barer

I would rather be dead than not read

— Annie Proulx

I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as…

— Mark Strand

“Leave the lights on: you can sleep when you're dead...you can't read when you're dead.”

— Michael Link

“The dead can read tears.”

— Louis de Bernières

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

“He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

— Joseph Heller

I always have a few different books going at once.

— Miranda Kerr