| "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..." Lawrence Clark Powell |
| "The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered." Joey Skaggs |
| "While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader." Kingman Brewster |
| "Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture." Allen Ginsberg |
| "Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." Joseph Pulitzer |
| "There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself." Michael Pollan |
| "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom." Geoffrey Fisher |
| "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." W. H. Auden |
| "The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom." Bruce Jackson |
| "Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence." John Lahr |
| "Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty." Herbert Gold |
| "And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is." Paul Auster |
| "In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen." Thierry Henry |
| "Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden." Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all." Rita Mae Brown |
| "In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder." John Masefield |
| "The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find." Freda Adler |
| "Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day." Orison Swett Marden |
| "Language can be abstracted, language can be used as a very beautiful code in poetry, the nuances and the multiple meanings of things, it has a music to it. It has so many things in it. It is also reduced from prose and therefore can be both mathematical, or very, very abstract." Jim Jarmusch |
| "Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award." Elfriede Jelinek |
| "Are you a journalist who sells his principles in the markets of slaves and who fattens on gossip and misfortune in crime? If so, you are like a ravenous vulture preying upon rotting carrion." Kahlil Gibran |
| "Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us." Angela Carter |
| "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." Mark Twain |
| "For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment." Matthew Arnold |
| "Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race." Charles Bradlaugh |
| "Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true." Samuel Johnson |
| "I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses." Nelson Mandela |
| "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." Oscar Wilde |
| "I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12." David Bowie |
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