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Quotes About Print

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
~ Diane Wakoski
One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
~ Jonah Peretti
I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.
~ Walt Mossberg
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
~ David Ogden Stiers
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.
~ Joel Sternfeld
I have often said that the negative is similar to a musician's score, and the print to the performance of that score. The negative comes to life only when performed as a print.
~ Ansel Adams
But many generations had passed since anyone had had a use for a set of seven-figure logarithms, an atlas of the world, and the score of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony printed, according to the flyleaf, by H. K. Chu & Sons at the City of Pekin in the year AD 2021.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Seclusion I can understand; but why print? Printing is a clumsy process. Why not write? What would it suggest, Watson?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Lewis's first novel appeared in November 1912 under the pseudonym of Tom Graham, because Lewis regarded it as a pot boiler, which was written quickly to pay the bills rather than for any artistic endeavour. It had an initial print run of 1,000 copies and sold less than 800 of those. Lewis later revealed that it was written "on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. on a vacation from my bosses".
~ Sinclair Lewis
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
~ Barbara W Tuchman
I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.
~ James Ellroy
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.
~ George Orwell
The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.
~ George Orwell
One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.
~ John Zorn
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
~ Lord Byron
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.
~ Chad Hurley
How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist's print, not logical argument, which dealt the final blow to the slave trade—the broadside of Description of a Slave Ship (1789).
~ Sarah Lewis
Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.
~ David Travis
It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.
~ Louis Silverstein
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the author considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me quite a nice compliment - but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment.
~ Mark Twain
Seien Sie vorsichtig mit Gesundheitsbüchern - Sie könnten an einem Druckfehler sterben.
~ Mark Twain