Book Quote by Haruki Murakami

“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who…

— Haruki Murakami

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.”

— Paul Leicester Ford

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

— Samuel Butler

“In books I mee the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and…

— Anonymous

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and…

— Richard de Bury

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

— Stephen King

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin