Books Quote by Rick Moody

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

I would rather be dead than not read

— Annie Proulx

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or…

— Gao Xingjian

“Once I study up on them and the case, I always feel closer to the victims. That closeness drives me to find them or…

— J.R. Rain

I'm good at reading people.

— Al Alvarez

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're…

— Marilyn Johnson

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

— Clarence Darrow

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

— Alan Alda

“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)”

— Francisco de Quevedo

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

— Pierre Berton

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue…

— C. S. Forester