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I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

— Kameron Hurley

Never index your own book.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see…

— Camille Paglia

That awkward moment when the internet goes down so you have to use your book to find the answers.

— Anonymous

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to…

— Aziz Ansari

There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf,…

— Mark Leibovich

The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to say, "Can…

— Jeanette Winterson

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop…

— Robin Li

Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write…

— Steve Bunce

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick…

— Abbie Cornish

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because…

— Vint Cerf

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

— Sam Riley