"Get black on white."
- Guy de Maupassant
"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher."
"It's possible to walk out of your house with "local" footsteps, printing them one by one till they go on to make "global" consequences! Go, make a safe journey!"
- Israelmore Ayivor
"There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look."
- E.A. Bucchianeri
"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
- Charles Bukowski
"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
- Douglas C. Engelbart
"Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print"
- Matthew Pearl