Andrew Rosenthal Quotes

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

The written word is everything.

May books spread the world over!

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

I often pick up papers and books which have all kinds of pictures and marks in them, but I cannot understand them as a white person does. They have a way of communicating by the use of written symbols and figures; but before they could do that, they had to have an understanding among themselves. You are learning that, and I was very much pleased to hear you are reading.