Dead Quote by Colin Morgan

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison -…

— Cornel West

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

“The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music…

— Fern Schumer Chapman

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

— Christopher Paolini

“The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little…

— Jordan MacLean

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

“As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good…

— Diane Setterfield

The living can assist the imagination of the dead...

— William Butler Yeats

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

— Don DeLillo

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often…

— Michael Helm

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

“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