Age Quote by Joshua Foer

“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images…

— Anonymous

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

— Samuel Johnson

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we…

— Geraldine Brooks

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad…

— Joshua Foer

“Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are…

— David James Duncan

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures,…

— Kadir Nelson

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their…

— Yann Martel

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

— Alberto Manguel

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

— Paul Auster