Top 100 E Books Quotes
#1. Please don't encourage or espouse e-piracy...the sharing, swapping, or trading of e-books is outlawed by the DMCA unless authorized by the copyright holder.
Fran Lee
#2. With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.
Ruth Glick
#4. The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
Virginia Postrel
#5. E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.
Nick Earls
#6. For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.
Adrian Tomine
#8. I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.
Sue Monk Kidd
#9. Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.
Nicholas Negroponte
#10. If people knew how powerful books were, they'd all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just like me!
Terry Schott
#11. I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.
Colson Whitehead
#12. E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.
Joshua Cohen
#13. I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.
Graham Swift
#14. My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.
Jane Green
#15. For instance, you can't buy e-books through the Kindle app on your iPhone because Apple takes 30% of app-driven sales - a cut that would hurt Amazon's already razor-thin margin.
Anonymous
#16. I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.
Steve Earle
#17. He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
George Herbert
#18. I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.
Rick Moody
#19. There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
Ray Bradbury
#20. The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.
Graham Swift
#21. I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
Warren Spector
#22. E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
Anne Lamott
#23. They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous.
Robert Loomis
#24. I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.
Richard Curtis
#25. As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.
Robert Darnton
#26. The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.
Daniel Nayeri
#27. The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.
Adam Kirsch
#28. You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
Joanna Trollope
#29. I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
Nicholson Baker
#30. I hate those e-books. They can not be the future ... they may well be ... I will be dead.
Maurice Sendak
#31. The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
Carla H. Krueger
#35. I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.
Dan Brown
#37. I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.
Thomas Perry
#38. I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.
James Patterson
#39. People who prefer e-books ... think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
Joe Queenan
#40. I don't think they'll ever replace the living and breathing," says Gary. "They said that about e-books," says Kevin. "You can't stop progress.
Margaret Atwood
#41. Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
Paul Theroux
#42. For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.
Clark Gregg
#43. After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E.L. Konigsburg
#45. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#46. I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
E. Nesbit
#47. A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.
Cynthia Ozick
#48. We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.
Nancy Grossman
#49. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E.M. Delafield
#51. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
E.B. White
#53. He pinched the remaining chapters' pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.
David S.E. Zapanta
#54. I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.
S.E. Hinton
#55. I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.'
Richelle E. Goodrich
#56. I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.
A.E. Samaan
#58. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
Stephen Fry
#59. Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
Bob Colacello
#60. Life is a book that someone else is reading - and you, a key character - hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
D.E. Stevenson
#62. I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
Elizabeth McCracken
#63. You're beautiful, Jenna. i'm a man and I'm afraid to admit when I'm lucky enough to look at someone as beautiful as you.
E.L. Montes
#64. I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.
E. J. Hughes
#65. There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me."
Clark Gregg
#66. Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
E.L. Konigsburg
#67. It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E.L. Doctorow
#68. Then why do they hate me?
No, they don't. They are just confused. Something different always confuses others. It makes them feel uncomfortable.
E. Mellyberry
#69. Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
E.W. Howe
#70. All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
E.B. White
#71. Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
S.E. Hinton
#72. Beauty comes from the inside, beyond your fair skin.
E. Mellyberry
#74. Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.
E. Millicent Sowerby
#75. Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
S.E. Hinton
#76. For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions.
Scott Bradfield
#77. I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
Raymond E. Feist
#78. Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. Lockhart
#79. We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.
Douglas Adams
#80. Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S.E. Hinton
#82. It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
Sutton E. Griggs
#83. I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.
E. J. Dionne
#84. Magic is a power, much like madness but so much more like fire.
Cynthia Gael
#85. For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.
E.L. Konigsburg
#86. There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.
E. Nesbit
#87. Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E.L. Doctorow
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Anonymous
#89. Sins of the past that I can't rectify alone. Sins I committed as an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. I need help and fast. I need someone off the books. Someone angry.
Nathan Edmondson
#91. Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
E.B. White
#92. I want all the books on the shelves.
I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.
E.L. Konigsburg
#93. The most buried treasures lie in the cemetery. There lies buried the dreams that never came true, the goals that were never reached, the inventions that were never created and the books that were never written.
Don't be a buried treasure.
John E. DeJesus
#94. Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.
Lois Lowry
#95. They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.
Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst
#96. Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T.E. Lawrence
#97. Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#98. Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. Books," says E. P. Whipple, "are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." "As a rule," said Benjamin Disraeli, "the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Orison Swett Marden
#100. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
Priya Ardis
