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We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

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

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

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.