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

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

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

I cannot live without books.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

You can't die with an unfinished book.