"To conjecture, I would be surprised if literature is going the way of the dodo. What I do predict is that literature is going the way of the opera."

"To conjecture, I would be surprised if literature is going the way of the dodo. What I do predict (not a hard prediction to make, methinks) is that literature is going the way of the opera. That process started long before computers and kindles landed in every lap."

-- Paul Verhaeghen