Quote by Alistair Cross

“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly…

— Brian Christian

“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”

— Patrick Carman

“I thought you weren’t allowed to have a phone,” he says. “Or was that a really pathetic excuse to avoid giving me your number?”…

— Colleen Hoover

When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed…

— Craig Brown

“You always sound like you’re coping pretty well on the phone.” “Don’t be fooled. I have to maintain at least some shred of dignity.…

— Cherrie Lynn

“The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking”

— Dmitry Dyatlov

“If someone takes the time to text, you damned well better be kind enough to check it.”

— Melissa Foster

“What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

— Jack Kerouac

“But complaining that you have a bad memory for names or numbers is a bit like whining about your smartphone functioning poorly underwater.”

— Dean Buonomano

“send the text without thinking. I’m distracted, stabbing away at the keys on my phone while sounding off to Yasmin as she drives down…

— Claire Douglas

“I'm sure it (not spoken-'it' stands for the Blackberry phone) has texting because it can do everything but get up and dance.”

— Charlotte Wilson