Book Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them.…

— Dave Barry

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

— George Brandis

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of…

— Thomas Merton

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did…

— Ned Vizzini

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

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind…

— John Steinbeck

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book…

— David Bergen

People perish. Books are immortal.

— Robert Harris

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist,…

— Irvine Welsh