Book Quote by William Godwin

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once…

— William Godwin

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

— John Milton

“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

“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured…

— John Milton

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human souls we…

— Charles Kingsley

“A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator…

— Emily Murdoch

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“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

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...”

— Victoria Schwab