Printed Word Quotes

Printed Word Quote of the day

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

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.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

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.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.