When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
Books are like tweets, except longer.
I should infinitely prefer a book.
The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Writers will be judged by what they write.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
A book is a book is a book.
We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.
If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
The stitch of a book is its words.
Writing for others is great cos you can tailor it for them.
When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.
