Book Quote by Clive Barker

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

— Stephen King

“The death of someone is like reading a book, yet having it end, where it wasn't supposed to.”

— Cindy Vo Nguyen

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

— Alice Hoffman

“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.”

— Nora Ephron

“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long,…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

— William Styron

“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 not complete till it reaches a reader.”

— Aman Jassal

“Death is a tale we must all someday read.”

— William Grave

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

— Rumer Godden

“The book is the only immortality.”

— Rufus Choate

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”

— Judith Fitzgerald