Alive Quote by Marcel Theroux

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was…

— John Milton

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Rumer Godden

When all is dead, the words will be read.

— Jeremy Limn

There is life or death in words.

— Iimani David

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

— Jonathan Swift

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