John Drinkwater Quotes

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

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

Books are humanity in print.

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.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

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

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Reading taught me how to write.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Writing is a communication.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

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.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.