Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
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Printed Word
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Betty Smith
Author
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words."
John Gardner
Author, Educator
"We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"America is the only country ever founded on the printed word."
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read."
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"I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes."
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