Classification Quote by Craig A. Evans

A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…

— Henry David Thoreau

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work…

— Henry David Thoreau

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what…

— Albert Einstein

“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is…

— Italo Calvino

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You…

— DJ Spooky

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

“γραφέων ὁδὸς εὐθεῖα καὶ σκολιὴ μία ἐστί, φησί, καὶ ἡ αὐτή (The path of writing is crooked and straight)”

— Heraclitus

“Writing letters...means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk…

— Kafka, Franz

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

— Edward J. Fraughton

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from…

— Erin McKean

“If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper…

— William Gibson