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…

— 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

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

— Patti Smith

“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

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

— Vartan Gregorian

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been…

— R. A. Torrey

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we…

— James Salter

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

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...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman