Book Quote by Anonymous

“Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisley, and they are that…

— T.S Eliot

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul…

— Diane Setterfield

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle of the…

— Connie Willis

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's…

— Juno Temple

“And everyday I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside…

— Diane Settlefield

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

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

— Neil Gaiman

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri