Alive Quote by Andrea Barrett

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

— Julia Alvarez

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh,…

— Eduardo Galeano

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

— Ray Bradbury

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because…

— Dean Koontz

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

— Jonathan Swift

I have always come to life after coming to books.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without…

— Marcel Theroux

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe…

— Emma Thompson

“Reading a book is like living many lives”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of…

— Nathan Englander

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton