Alive Quote by Julia Alvarez

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

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

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

— Ray Bradbury

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

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

— Gertrude Atherton

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount…

— Sudha Murty