Able Quote by Edwidge Danticat

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own…

— Don DeLillo

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

— Jason Epstein

It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places.…

— Tim Waterstone

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of…

— David Rakoff

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

— Susan Orlean

I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I…

— Nikki Giovanni

We authors certainly don't know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following music downloads,…

— Justin Cartwright

“...A well-written, well-organized book packages the author's brain. It is the purest, richest, most complete way to take what's inside one person's brain and…

— Kevin Maney

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes…

— Tim O'Reilly

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

— Nolan Bushnell

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool,…

— Anne Fadiman

An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you…

— Ravi Subramanian