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Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.”

Men World Humans Book Watches Records Paper Print Shelves Human Spirit Librarian Keepers

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.”

Thinking Way May Opportunity Media Disappear Print Wrong Way Print Media

Author:David Gelernter

“We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.”

Should Literature Voice Conversation Competition Dialogue Print

Author:N. Katherine Hayles

“Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’”

Knows Wells Citizens Benefits Presses Print Precise Publishers Freedom Of The Press Crux

Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.”

Men Believe Quality Cold Reflection Faults Print Shortcomings Good Quality

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.”

Speech Presses Print Dictator Free Press

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.”

Men Believe Cold Faults Print Shortcomings

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.”

Men Years Book Sometimes Care Women Lines Wife Mines Divine Reader Paper Fairs Faithful Print Heed Faithful Wife

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.”

Want Kind Loses Principles Integrity Paper Survival Print Censorship Editorials Printer Jeopardize

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.”

Men May Matter Speech Tradition Asking No Matter What Contrary Newspapers Print Permission Suggestions Sermons Legislature Abhorrent

Author:William O. Douglas

“The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.”

People May Soul Character Together Young Left Attitude Air Modern Fashion Strikes Print Tied Left Out Servility

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.”

Seems Courses Areas Odd Behave Parks Wilderness Print Regulation Rangers Rules And Regulations Small Print

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night.”

Stills Different Sometimes Jobs Film Night Tomorrow Directors Checks Tonight Print Premieres Different Jobs

Author:Brett Ratner

“I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.”

Want Black White Print Black And White

Author:Shiko Munakata

“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.”

Important Facts America Interesting Opinion Pages Decided Opposites Method Print Cleaning Editorials Ignoring Facts

Author:Herbert Bayard Swope

“Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.”

“I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.”

People Littles Book Use Feelings Together Faces Mystery Treats Insight Instance Reasonable Consideration Print Portraits Furniture Obliged Portfolios

Book:Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

Source: Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

“When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.”

Feels Sometimes Crime Scene Criminals Print Pens Manuscripts

Author:Don Roff

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Earth Artist Three Behinds Knowing Feet He Man Creatures Dancing Inspired Leaving Surface Tales Print

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.”

Ifs Enough Bigs Used Truth Is Newspapers Print Legends

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.”

“In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... One paper had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven.”

Country Moments Stories Lasts Heaven Sleep Ready Months Paper Angel Died Finals Wave Print Princess Replaced Papers Tabloids Diana Millennials Ascending Slag

Author:Martin Amis

“The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.”

Running Effort Ordinary Sells Advertising Print Yelling

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.”

Two Book Home Dream Would Be Able Beautiful Pay Minutes Produce Offers Finished Dust Copies Print Jackets Scenarios Fees Bookshops

Author:William Gibson

“Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.”

People Writing Wells Young Bits Voice Novel Print Derivatives Young Writers Copycats Celine

Author:Mordecai Richler

“If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.”

“It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.”

Hard Lost Imagine Cost Selling Print Revenue Goodwill

Author:Stewart Butterfield

“Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.”

Real Reading Print Antidote

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.”

Said Past Print Unfair They Said Say Anything

Author:Ann Coulter

“Whenever possible print a woman's age.”

Age Print

Author:Arthur Christiansen

“I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.”

“I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.”

Two Ideas Artist Originals Photographer Profession Print Livelihood Original Ideas

Author:Donald Lambert

“I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.”

Sometimes Reading House Walks Wonder Dog Office Red Coffee Shops Chairs Print Breakfast Cream Desks Find Me Manuscripts Revision Coffee Shop

Author:Kirby Larson

“I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Stills Book Might Written Thousand Lucky Sells Copies Print Rejected Enchanted

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly”

Law Names Chance Print

Author:Joe Satriani

“As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.”

Years Book Ends Film Moving Fall Culture Creative Favors Print Keep Moving Creative Work Distributors

Book:Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.”

Art Use Fun Half Screens Combination Tone Colour Print Pie Mud Ink Transparent Subtlety Mud Pies

Author:Ralph Steadman

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