Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
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.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.