Quotes by Printed Word Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. A. E. van Vogt printed-word writing people I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad Andy Partridge printed-word soul believe If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Benjamin Franklin printed-books offending printed-word Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. Betty Smith printed-word reading children I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred. Buzz Bissinger sacred printed-word thinking Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. Dennis Potter hierarchy printed printed-word It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. Eric Hobsbawm printed-word writing book I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369 Erin Morgenstern magic printed-word thinking Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. Gavin Lyall printed-word writing morning The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests. Harold Innis impact printed-word rights Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word. Janeane Garofalo translate comedy printed-word We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images. John Gardner printed-word reading writing I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. John McGahern gothic printed-word church I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read. John Steinbeck printed-word writing memories I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book. Julianne Malveaux printed-word book ideas I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Kurt Vonnegut printed-word want character Nothing was more valuable than the printed word. Margaret Haddix valuable printed printed-word America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. Marshall McLuhan usa printed-word country We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect. Mervyn Peake black printed-word sound I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word. Paula Danziger printed printed-word feels 12»
