Book Quote by John Milton

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive…

— John Milton

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

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

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

— Gilbert Highet

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that…

— John Milton

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

— Rumer Godden

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the…

— Diane Setterfield