James Patterson Quotes

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.