Amusing Quote by Mary Roach

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

— George Brandis

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

— Victor Hugo

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

— Christopher Paolini

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

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Rumer Godden

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once…

— William Godwin

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison -…

— Cornel West

I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.

— Mary H.K. Choi

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges