People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.
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Related I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense... ETHAN CANIN You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the book... J. R. MOEHRINGER where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them. JOHN CONNOLLY There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write ... MICHAEL LEWIS There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for bo... L.A. WEATHERLY The holy books of all religions are powerful books,not because they are religious books,but because ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... AIDAN CHAMBERS There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and scien... ESTHER BUCK Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension ... GEOFF DYER Books are special -- they communicate with us directly, ... movies are made by a bunch of people for... EMILIE GRIFFIN The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms... CORNELIA FUNKE I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be ther... D. A. PENNEBAKER It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you ROBIN SACREDFIRE I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ... NANCY GARDEN Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. MARK TWAIN Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, wes... WILLIAM GOLDING I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will... CAROLINE LEAVITT His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “Peop... RICHARD L. BRANDT In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. Th... GAYLE FORMAN There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. THOMAS L. MASSON One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV,... PATRICK CARMAN Our objective is not to replace books. Just as video tapes have expanded the market for viewing movi... JAMES SACHS You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read... ELIF SHAFAK If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up. DAN SAVAGE Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method... WALTER BENJAMIN There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... MICHAEL MORPURGO They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copie... SUSAN ORLEAN Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. Th... ALAN CHEUSE I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that ... LAUREN GROFF We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... CORY DOCTOROW If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people... ADRIANA TRIGIANI It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have SENECA The Big Book of Easy Suppers CHRONICLE BOOKS Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology CHRONICLE BOOKS Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time ... EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev... EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred. ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ... EXO BOOKS In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. BARRY EISLER When books are burned in the end people will be burned too. HEINRICH HEINE I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand. H. G. BISSINGER Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another tw... TONY REINKE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. HARPER LEE There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding betwe... GENE LUEN YANG There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha... TATIANA DE ROSNAY Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is. SUE GRAFTON If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have r... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, b... DAVID RAKOFF There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. ELLEN HOPKINS [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. ... JUDY BLUME I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that ... MARKUS ZUSAK Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor... URSULA K. LE GUIN So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I w... MARC ACITO Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies. SPENCER SMITH As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there. DAVID BERGEN Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done... GRACE LIN I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books -... DONALD TRUMP Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. The... MIKE BINDER Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ... JOSH LIEB There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at... KATE THOMPSON Books are more valluable than clothes & jewellery because, inside the books you get mountains of clo... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They... JUDITH TARR The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and... NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for... G. WILLOW WILSON You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. CORNELIA FUNKE I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he'... PETER SHAFFER Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so... CORY DOCTOROW Books were king, but now movies are king and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a... ETHAN CANIN People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read mor... G.K. CHESTERTON I love comic books and I love anime. SAMUEL L. JACKSON Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat... VIRGINIA WOOLF I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big resea... NICHOLSON BAKER I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after read... LAURIE R. KING Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN People think all I am is Mr. Walton, ... I've done books and movies and radio. My life has covered t... EARL HAMNER I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ... ALBERTO MANGUEL I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'... GAIL CARRIGER I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it i... LISA JACKSON There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because every... SOPHIE HANNAH All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in th... TOM LEHRER Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, a... RAINA TELGEMEIER That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... DAVE EGGERS Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ... LEO TOLSTOY Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books. AMAN JASSAL
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