Science Quote by Steven Pinker

“Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem to have…

— Leonard Ray Teel

“INVENTING A WRITING system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. The first scribes had to settle on…

— Jared Diamond

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and…

— Harold Innis

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers…

— Ernest Cline

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind…

— Anne Waldman

“Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of…

— George Orwell

“The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought…

— Terry Pratchett

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power. The positive and negative affect on…

— Steven L. Hiller