Christopher > Christopher's Quotes

“It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.”
― Alan Kay

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian