Quotes for All
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, … Read more
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world…plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera. Edward Tufte
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. Edward Abbey
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and … Read more
She never said, No, don’t buy that trash, or Pick a real book. She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom. David Lubar
Call me a troglodyte; I’d rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book. Clifford Stoll
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of … Read more
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. Christopher Morley
The book has very specific qualities. Let’s say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They’ll be able to say, “Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is.” The differences are manifold. Art Spiegelman