Book Quote by Jodi Picoult

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

— George Brandis

I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and that to…

— Lauren Groff

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

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a…

— Don DeLillo

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

— Michael Lewis

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You…

— Mordecai Richler

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

— Jose Saramago

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by…

— William Golding

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no…

— Anonymous

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will…

— Rosamond Lehmann