Articles Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

— Hugh Mackay

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

— Neil Postman

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

— Carol Burnett

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin…

— Neil Gaiman

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables…

— Gaston Bachelard

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the…

— John Masefield

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

— Jennifer Stone

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

— Florence Littauer