Printed Words Quotes

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

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.