Lisa See Quotes

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

The illiterate leave few records.

A book is a book is a book.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

The written word is everything.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

A nation’s literature is the expression of a nation's mind in writing and the concentration of intellect for the purpose of spreading itself abroad and multiplying its energy

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.