Book Quote by George Brandis

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

— Mary Roach

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

— Rumer Godden

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers…

— Patrick deWitt

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

People die, but books never die.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt