Irvine Welsh Quotes

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

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.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.