This book should be read as one would read the book of a…

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once…

— William Godwin

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't…

— Christopher Isherwood

“That's great, but what book should I read next?  What book would be a great companion”

— Jason Cannon

“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human. ”

— Carolyn See

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

— Sojourner Truth

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt…

— Greta Gerwig

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't…

— Ray Bradbury

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words…

— Henry Miller

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on…

— Marya Hornbacher

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound…

— Chip Kidd