Printed Word Quotes - Page 2

• Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Writing, People, Looks

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• I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, Reading, Healthy

  "I Am America (And So Can You!)". Book by Stephen Colbert, 2007.

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• I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Want, Can Do

  "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.

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• For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.

  Richard Meltzer

  Book, Reading, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Comedy, Translate, Printed

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Book, Ideas, Good Times

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

  Paula Danziger

  Feels, Printed

  Paula Danziger (2006). “The Cat Ate My Gymsuit”, p.18, Penguin

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