Peter Greenaway Quotes

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.

I want to start a blog.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.