Books Quote by Neil Postman

At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

— Neil Postman

“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to…

— Neil Postman

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know,…

— Amy Gail Hansen

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of…

— Francesca Lia Block

Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was…

— Valie Export

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…

— May Sarton

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a…

— David Nicholls

“If I could have been a cowgirl, I might have never written a word.”

— Carolyn Haines

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't…

— Saoirse Ronan

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's…

— Gene Barry