Blessing Quote by Thomas Traherne

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we…

— Geraldine Brooks

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

— Antonio Machado

The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned,…

— Francis Quarles

As the paper though it entereth the press white, yet when it cometh forth black is eagerly sought to be perused; so do thou…

— Ivan Panin

“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what…

— Carew Papritz

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

— Jack Kerouac

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

— Eric Hobsbawm

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time,…

— Johann Georg Hamann

That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set.…

— Scott Spencer

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach