Steven Pressfield Quotes

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.

I read in all forms: paper, computer, phone, audio.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

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

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like this, I can just stop. I can't throw books out, even if I think they're crummy. I feel like I've got to give it to the library. I've got to loan it to somebody, or I keep it on my shelf. It's like a plant.

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

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

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.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.