Massive changes may have occurred in libraries in recent years, with new digital resources and services supplementing the old traditional resources and services, the dog-eared card catalogues ripped up and destroyed, workstations suddenly everywhere, but one essential aspect of “libraryness” has not changed: libraries remain places dedicated to storage. Books continue to be published in greater and greater numbers – so great in fact that there are no accurate figures as to exactly how many are published: some say one every thirty seconds, others four thousand per day, others a million per year – and somehow, whether through the off-site storage of the physical books themselves, or microfilm copying, or digital scanning, we remain obliged to keep up with or afloat in this vast deluge of paper. Even the new, high-tech rebranded libraries opened to great fanfare in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the 1990s could not get away from this essential fact of paper hoarding: they were called “Idea Stores.” - p.56

~ Ian Sansom

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

~ Pearl Bailey

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I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

~ Frank Peretti

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Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

~ John Lothrop Motley

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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

~ Dawn Steel

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It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

~ Rupert Friend

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

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It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

~ Richard Karn

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