Charles Lamb Quotes

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

I am no fan of books.

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.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

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.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.