Book Quote by Jonathan Lethem

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't…

— Nicholas Negroponte

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine…

— Umberto Eco

The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several…

— Art Spiegelman

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can…

— Stephan Pastis

At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,…

— Alberto Manguel

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is…

— Annabelle Selldorf

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

— Robert Darnton

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and…

— John Darnielle

“. . .what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that comes from…

— Ammon Shea

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

— James Bryce