Jane Hamilton Quotes

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life. I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

I've always been a big fan of books.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

I've always loved books.

I wanted to live among books.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

People die, but books never die.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print in the long term is in paperback. The hardback has a certain life, and then it stops having that. It stops selling, and if you want the book to just stay around there has to be a paperback edition. So if there were not a paperback edition the book would eventually disappear from the shelves, and we would have lost the battle.