Crafts Quote by Mary Zimmerman

Texts are always in flux.

— Robert Darnton

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

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

— Theodor Billroth

People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage…

— Irvine Welsh

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

— Elie Wiesel

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

— David Crystal