Books Quote by Walter J. Ong Download Open image “There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.” — Walter J. Ong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational Love Way Writing
The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the Chinese writing… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least somewhat to… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“The clichés in political denunciations in many low-technology, developing cultures—enemy of the people, capitalist war-mongers —that strike high literates as mindless are residual formulary… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of imitation talking,… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Sight isolates, sound incorporates. Whereas sight situates the observer outside what he views, at a distance, sound pours into the hearer. Vision dissects, as… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
