These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Books are humanity in print.
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.