Castes Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not…

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language precisely, whereas…

— Vern Rutsala

“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing…

— Jared Diamond

The desire to write grows with writing.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and…

— Jean Cocteau

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

— Edward Dahlberg

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

— Robert E. Howard