Age Quote by Michael Bierut

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among…

— Tom Chatfield

“On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into…

— Margaret Atwood

“Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern…

— Jared Diamond

“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images…

— Anonymous

The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night. He was a staffer…

— Giles Coren

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

— Margaret Atwood

“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.”

— Jared Diamond

“At Answer in Genesis, we received a letter from Harlan and Stacy Hutchins with a printed image of an engraving done in London in…

— Ken Ham

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

— Jonathan Lethem

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

— Neil Postman

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short…

— Annie Besant

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

— Joseph Barbera