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  • I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • 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. -- Ross Kemp
  • I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins. -- Demetri Martin
  • I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things. -- Sophia Amoruso
  • I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad. -- Caroline Leavitt
  • I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are and I think it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be. -- Steve Leveen
  • These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. -- Gilbert Highet
  • Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. -- Douglas Coupland
  • If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. -- Seth Godin
  • E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button. -- J. A. Konrath
  • The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it. -- Seth Godin
  • To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. -- Umberto Eco
  • I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without. -- Karl Lagerfeld
  • Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. -- Leonora Carrington
  • I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too. -- Gary Shteyngart
  • By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms. -- Osman Rashid
  • 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. -- Fred Saberhagen
  • Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? -- Margaret Atwood
  • When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience. -- Rick Riordan
  • I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly. -- Barry Eisler
  • I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. -- Joseph Fiennes
  • I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another. -- Joseph Addison
  • I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine. -- Dylan Moran
  • With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom. -- Richard Stallman
  • Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things. -- Nick Harkaway
  • I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them. -- Patricia Reilly Giff
  • 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. -- Chip Kidd
  • Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves. -- Sheridan Hay
  • Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. -- Ernest K. Gann
  • Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. -- Ken Bruen
  • Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. -- Alan Watts
  • Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. -- R. D. Laing
  • Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic? -- Ben Shapiro
  • I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. -- Tahereh Mafi
  • How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper. -- Nicholas Negroponte
  • [Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books. -- Manning Marable
  • Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty. -- Diogenes Laertius
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