Book Quote by Niall Ferguson

“If you think a lot, write a book, Because a gravestone does not have much space.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.”

— Jennifer Latham

“If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist…

— Susan Griffin

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,…

— Dean Koontz

“Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?”

— Isaiah

“As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good…

— Diane Setterfield

“This is a book about notable achievements made while dead.”

— Mary Roach

“If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell…

— Connie Willis

“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade,…

— James Lee Burke