Book Quote by Margaret Atwood

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so…

— Margaret Atwood

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so…

— Margaret Atwood

I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

— Dan Brown

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

— Robert Darnton

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which "parts of books will…

— Jeff Jarvis

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity, but that's…

— Anonymous

“The openness of such networked devices reflects our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions between the…

— Jay David Bolter

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in…

— Russell Smith

“Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their…

— David Marshall

I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe a novel…

— Michael Tobias