Belief Quote by Tom Peters

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

— Nate Silver

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious…

— Yann Martel

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest…

— Nicholson Baker

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these libraries were…

— Anders Rydell

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were…

— Stephen Greenblatt

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely…

— Agnes Repplier

“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still…

— David Pogue

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

— Sol LeWitt

Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

— Robin Sloan