Abandon Quote by Patti Smith

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

— Patti Smith

“Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.”

— Patti Smith

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

— Patti Smith

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is…

— Art Spiegelman

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

— Katherine Paterson

“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks,…

— Suzanne Somers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a…

— Richard Powers

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the…

— Barbara Tuchman

“And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts…

— Czeslaw Milosz

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

— Richard Dawkins