Dave Eggers Quotes

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.

Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.

The highest power of television journalism is not the transmission of information but the transmission of experience.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.

Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.

Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.