Quotes About Traditional Books

#1. In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in more forms, because many people prefer to engage with ideas in films, infographics, comics and other forms that are not traditional books or articles.

Dean Spade

#2. I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

Robert Darnton

#3. But here's an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too.

Sean Platt

#4. My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Jonathan Hickman

#5. Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

Michael Cunningham

#7. I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do ... The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

Joe Strummer

#8. ... mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates ...

David Nicholls

#9. Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

Dylan Moran

#10. It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Clement Alexander Price

#11. 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

#12. Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Stephen Curry

#13. When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Michael Burgess

#14. So the difference between most books about love and Love For No Reason is that traditional love books focus on love as a stream of energy between two people, whereas this book focuses on love as a deep state of being that you can live in no matter what's going on in your life.

Marci Shimoff

#15. 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

#16. Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

Laurie Anderson

#17. Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. Having a record of well-child visits also protects parents, especially those who choose to follow an alternative lifestyle, from being accused of medical neglect. An ongoing record showing regular well-child visits goes a long way to negate such accusations, supposing they are ever made.

Anonymous

#19. One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

Marilyn Nelson

#20. I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

James Galway

#21. I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.

Nina Simone

#22. Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

Donna Brazile

#23. Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.

Maggie Young

#24. The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Ken Auletta

#25. I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

Hedi Slimane

#26. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Carrie Fisher

#27. You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.

Cate Blanchett

#28. My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

#29. Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything.

Ken Robinson

#30. Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

#31. You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

Chinelo Okparanta

#32. Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Anne M. Mulcahy