Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that…

— Quintin Jardine

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

— Irving Penn

“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity, but that's…

— Anonymous

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as…

— H. L. Mencken

“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the…

— Matthew Battles

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page...”

— Raymond Chandler

“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the…

— Alberto Manguel

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words of madmen.…

— Marek Halter

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no…

— Ezra Pound

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz