Writing Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

14 Writing quotes by Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan’s 14 concise thoughts bridge media theory and the writer’s hand, reminding us that the medium itself shapes the message we craft.

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People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

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In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

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Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the…

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Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of…

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Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

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Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

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“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialized…

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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would…

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Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would…

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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my…

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An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

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New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could…

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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…

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