Books Quote by Ted Nelson

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many…

— Ann Patchett

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love…

— Eleanor Catton

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from…

— Larry McMurtry

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to…

— Kate Grenville

You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of dealing with…

— Andrew Strauss

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention…

— Edward Hirsch

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

— Ted Nelson

It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily…

— Alberto Manguel

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

— Nathan Fillion

I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind…

— Joan Didion

I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader…

— Jacqueline Woodson