Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

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

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“necromancy was essentially a bookish art,”

— Michael D. Bailey

“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk,…

— Gunter Grass

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out…

— Richard Brautigan

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald