Books Quote by Diane Settlefield

“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

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

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)”

— Francisco de Quevedo

“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

“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.”

— Amanda Craig

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the…

— Diane Setterfield

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“When I am dead and in my head And all my bones are are rotten, Take this book and think of me And mind…

— Flora Thompson

Books are dead men talking.

— George R. R. Martin