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• The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

  Cory Doctorow

  Reading, Book, Mean

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• I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that postcard anonymously and mail it to me. I got a lot of surprises.

  Frank Warren

  Husband, Father, Writing

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• I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, Years, Play

  "Paradise Is Here: An Interview With Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and analyze the time period with comparisons to the figure and the facial structure. It helps to be comfortable with computers because the massive amount of research is kept electronically and shared with my staff this way. Very little is printed out. I work with an illustrator to come up with the proper silhouettes and details of the clothing from the time period to time period. And on and on.

  Ruth E. Carter

  Zero, Character, Understanding

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• A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

  Henry Taylor

  Ignorance, Years, Secret

  Sir Henry Taylor (1957). “The Statesman”

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• [A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Communication, Mean, Snapshots

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• The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

  Irving Penn

  Pages, Dead Ends, Seems

  Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, William F. Stapp, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1990). “Irving Penn master images: the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• [Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.

  Christian Marclay

  Photography, Thinking, Phones

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• In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

  Lucinda Franks

  Airplane, Car, People

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• For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.

  Wesley Pruden

  Government, Land, Newspapers

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• I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.

  Bob Barr

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

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• My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Writing, Past, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

  Eric Sykes

  Book, Said, Print

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• When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.

  Scott Walker

  Writing, Thinking, Musical

  Interview with Erik Morse, believermag.com. July 1, 2013.

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• I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.

  Paul Johnson

  New York, Book, Writing

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• It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Men, Glasses, Paper

  Maurice Nicoll (1973). “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky”

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• Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Stories, Half, Tabloids

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• You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Littles, Pages

  Walter B. Pitkin (1931). “How We Learn: A Book for Young People with Emphasis Upon the Art of Efficient Reading”

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• You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted

  Dee Brown

  Giving Up, Book, Don't Give Up

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• Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

  John Coleman

  Heart, Wish, Today

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• When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in Malmö, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe l’oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from ‘Black and the Red III’ and continued that on the wall.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Space, Black

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

  Frank Bruni

  College, Errors, Records

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• If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.

  Terry Carr

  Cutting, Two, Soul

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