Printed Books Quotes

• The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Book, Smell, World

  "Book News: Papery Perfume, Tolstoy Trailer" by Rachel Arons, www.newyorker.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Persistence, Quality

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Reading, Discovery

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.

  Quintin Jardine

  Believe, Book, Taken

  "The Kindle threat". Quintin Jardine's blog, September 29, 2010.

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• I would always want printed books.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Want, Printed

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• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Printed Word, Offending, Criticism

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.

  Dan Poynter

  Running, Children, Educational

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they'll elude you by hiding in improbable places... But at other times they'll confront you, and you'll literally stumble over some tomes you hadn't thought about in weeks or years. I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me feel, but I can't feel them. They are all soul with no flesh, no texture, and no weight. They can get in your head but can't whack you upside it.

  Will Schwalbe

  Book, Elude You, Sight

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.40, Vintage

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• In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Love, Book, Reading

  Mohsin Hamid (2014). “Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Digital, Print

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Worry, Thank God

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• The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

  Cory Doctorow

  Reading, Book, Mean

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• Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

  Peter Drucker

  Morning, Book, School

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.268, Routledge

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• Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Looks, Scandal

  'The Journal of a Modern Lady' (1729) l. 188

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• We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Book, Bricks And Mortar, Circles

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• Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.

  Randall Jarrell

  Book, Taken, Rome

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 299, 1969.

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

  Steve Berry

  Children, Book, Years

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