Modern world Quote by Margaret Drabble

“I do have a Blackberry, isn't that enough?”

— Jodie Beau

“Phone convos and clever texts are fine for a while but not forever. She needed that human touch.”

— John Hunt

“You know, we used to be stuck writing letters to each other and waiting weeks or even months to hear back. The phone is…

— Julie Murphy

“they instead peered longingly at their phones, staring patiently while they waited for an update, hoping to find some snippet of information more important…

— Nick Bilton

“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have…

— David Nicholls

“What is this stuff, do you know?” he asked. “No, I don’t,” said Hazel. “I’ve never seen it before.” “There’s a lot we don’t…

— Richard Adams

“I should hurry, then, if I were you,” said Blackberry. “The sun will be down soon.” “Hah!” said Bigwig. “If I meet a stoat,…

— Richard Adams

“I'm sure it (not spoken-'it' stands for the Blackberry phone) has texting because it can do everything but get up and dance.”

— Charlotte Wilson

“As usual, when she has her Kindle in her hand, the world could crumble around her and she wouldn't have a clue.”

— Aurora Rose Reynolds

“In his pocket, the mobile phone beeped and wriggled. They'd said on the radio that the entirety of human knowledge was available on these…

— Tom Rachman

“And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren’t present always seemed…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“I have found that the tools for my trade- writing, are very basic: paper, a pen, time, food and perhaps a little tequila...”

— José N. Harris