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 have…

— Rumer Godden

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

— Rumer Godden

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

“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

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

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

— Ray Bradbury

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

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

— George Brandis

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

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