Carol Anshaw Quotes

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.

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

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

There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.

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

There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them.

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.

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

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.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

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

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

When a new book is published, read an old one.

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