Books Quote by Ammon Shea

“Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.”

— Mike Aquilina

“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still…

— David Pogue

“Even when all other forms of communication fail, books will remain.”

— George Brockway

“...these phones are not for transmitting literature; they are news lines, dedicated to the who, the what, the when, the where, and sometimes, perhaps,…

— Amy Rowland 2

“Are you the man who reads phone books?”

— Thomas Pynchon

“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed yesterday or…

— William Haizlett

“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

— Ken Scott

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.”

— J. D. Salinger

“Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.”

— Shion Miura

“Those of a future generation will one day look back on printed books with the same benign and befuddled expressions that we use when…

— Jason Merkoski

“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks,…

— Suzanne Somers