Andre Aciman Quotes

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

Literally, I don't have a television. So I don't really know what's happening pop-culturally. I read the 'New York Times.' And there's one worldwide cabin blog that I look at.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.