Alive Quote by William Golding

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

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

— Julia Alvarez

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a…

— Carlos Fuentes

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

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

— George Brandis

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

— Ray Bradbury

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've…

— Leslie Fiedler

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I…

— Nathalie Sarraute

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…

— Rumer Godden

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me,…

— Andrea Barrett

“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