Book Quote by Diane Setterfield

“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

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

— Helen Oyeyemi

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a…

— Don DeLillo

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

— Philip Hensher

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting…

— Miguel Serrano

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

— Philip Hensher

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if…

— Anonymous