Book Quote by Rumer Godden

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

— Walter Moers

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

— Jose Saramago

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

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

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

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

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

— Stephen King

People die, but books never die.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over…

— William Styron

“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as…

— Alberto Manguel