"I can imagine a future in which real……" — Susan Orlean

"I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way."

— Susan Orlean

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126 Quotes by Susan Orlean

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The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work…
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you…
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least,…
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and…
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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