Book Quote by Nicholas Carr

“Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.”

— M.H. Van Keuren

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

— Jamais Cascio

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Good books last longer than blog posts, which fade into cyberspace, hoping that a Google search will bring them to light again one day.…

— Aimee Byrd

“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of…

— Alan Jacobs

“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”

— Adelise M. Cullens

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

— Russell Banks

“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.”

— Mortimer J. Adler