Dozen Quote by Michael Bierut

Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper…

— Michael Bierut

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?

— Rian Hughes

Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also…

— Will Burtin

A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

— Walter Tracy

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

— Beatrice Warde

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

— Julianna Baggott

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten…

— Karl Kraus

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

— Martin Amis

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine

I have been proposed to a few times. I haven't counted how many, a little bit more than one hand?

— Lady Colin Campbell