Alive Quote by Jonathan Swift

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me,…

— Andrea Barrett

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

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Ray Bradbury

I have always come to life after coming to books.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a…

— Walt Whitman

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without…

— Marcel Theroux

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

— Julia Alvarez

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

— May Sarton

You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one.…

— Nathanael West