Advice Quote by Samuel Johnson

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

— George Herbert

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

“Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore…

— Terry Pratchett

We know the Victorian way of dealing with death, which was not dealing with it. You'll never get over it but having the support…

— Andrew Strauss

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than…

— Tryon Edwards

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting such store…

— Terry Pratchett

“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often I take…

— Diane Setterfield