Alive Quote by Jessica Fortunato

I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for…

— Dat Phan

“I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.”

— Jessica Fortunato

“Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with…

— Jessica Fortunato

“I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.”

— Jessica Fortunato

“After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I…

— Jessica Fortunato

“For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat…

— Jessica Fortunato

“Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.”

— Jessica Fortunato

“I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms.…

— Jessica Fortunato

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one…

— Lurlene McDaniel

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh,…

— Eduardo Galeano

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive…

— Ali Smith

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

— Stephen King

“I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.”

— Joe Coomer

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to…

— George Brandis

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense,…

— Blake Butler