Jacob Weisberg Quotes

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

Love of books is the best of all.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

I was never without a book in my hand.

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.

We live for books.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester." - Your parents must be so proud you can read." - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.

Books are the curse of the human race.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

My alma mater was books, a good library.