Book Quote by Jonathan Franzen

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

— Neil Gaiman

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think…

— Chinua Achebe

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in…

— Ernest Hemingway

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things…

— Ryan North

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They…

— Gabriel Zaid

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth

All my books center around death in some way.

— Adam Silvera

Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have…

— Phyllis A. Whitney