Anna Wintour Quotes

A magazine is so much more beautiful than what's online.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

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.

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

To be honest, making films is so expensive and their shelf life is limited. On the web, content remains... you can watch it after five, eight, 10 years... There's a huge audience and content on the web is accessible at the click of a phone.

Print is not dead.

This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

A woman’s name should appear in print but twice—when she is married and when she is buried.

State intervention in the literary realm went far beyond the blue-penciling of texts. It extended to the shaping of literature itself as a force at work throughout the social order. If states wielded such power in the age of print, what will restrain them from abusing it in the age of the Internet?

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

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

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

Print is definitely more nutritious. When I leave a website, I'm hungry again an hour later - especially the Chinese websites.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

I used to be so excited when I saw my name in print.

I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.