Book Quote by Rumer Godden

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens…

— Rumer Godden

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

— Rumer Godden

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

— Stephen King

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— George Brandis

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

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

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago