About Quote by John Updike

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation…

— Benjamin Disraeli

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The book looked doomed, assailed on all sides by those who'd see it superseded by the synthetic-new and those who didn't give two shiny…

— Charlie Hill

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

— Dodie Smith

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and…

— Harlan Ellison

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that…

— Quintin Jardine

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

“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

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

“Book lovers, readers who cherish the feel, smell and look of the printed book are concerned about the demise of the printed book and…

— Daniel Alef