Lisa See Quotes

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

I think I need pictures with my articles.

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

I love the physicality of books.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I would always want printed books.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

We went over the organization of the work program. More charts in pencil—he loves charts—no two of them are ever the same which is a bit baffling at times.

I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I can see where I'm going and where I've been. When I'm reading a printed book, the weight of the pages I've turned gives me a sense of how far I've come.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

I like books that are fat and full.

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.