Arrivals Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin…

— Beatrice Warde

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

— Derrick de Kerckhove

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

— Anthony Barboza

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

— Neil Postman

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

— E. F. Schumacher

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

“Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

— Nicholas Carr

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

— Dale Spender

We write to discover what we think.

— Joan Didion