Air Quote by Iain Banks

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

— Mary Roach

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

— George Brandis

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

— Rumer Godden

I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and…

— Paul G. Tremblay

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of materials might…

— Erik Larson

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

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

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad…

— Anonymous

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

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already…

— Thom Yorke

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor