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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.