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I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.