Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

“A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.”

— Liza D. Osae-Kwapong

“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

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”

— L.J. deVet

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander…

— Ray Bradbury

“Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.”

— Jordan Urtso

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman