Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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.

I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

Mobile is great for us. I think, even though the size of the screen doesn't give everything The New Yorker has to offer, people are spending a lot of time reading - and reading seriously - on the phone.

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.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

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

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

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.