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Writing Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of…
- Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
- In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
- In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for…
- People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
- Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their…
- 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 mind to work…
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov