Nadine Gordimer: Books Are Best For The Imagination

“There is no substitute for the book, and it would be a great deprivation and danger if the book should disappear and be replaced by something with a battery. I am not talking in a fuddy-duddy way about this. These things are wonderful for disseminating information. But for poetry, for novels, stories – those things that have the imagination at their heart – there is no substitute for the book.”