Gary Shteyngart Quotes

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

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

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.

The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad