Book Quote by George Saunders

All my books center around death in some way.

— Adam Silvera

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised…

— Dorothy Allison

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

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

— William Dean Howells

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

— John Selden

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

— May Sarton

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

— Scott Snyder

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

— Don DeLillo

Once you've lost faith in everything you've ever belived in, you can then say you know what it feels like to be dead.

— Megan Culkin

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis