“It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.”

— Eric Hobsbawm

Source: How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

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Eric Hobsbawm 47

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917–2012

Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist

"Unnecessary Roughness" (1971), p. 150
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“This is a book by a writer who does some teaching, not a book by a teacher who does some writing, and one of the satisfactions of the craft is that there's always something new to learn.”

William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor

Introduction, p. viii.
On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)

“Edvin is one of those persons who write to survive as writers and people; for them being a human and writer is the same thing.”

Edvin Kanka Cudic (1988) Human rights defender

Miloš Urošević, as quoted in May '92 (2012) p.19
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“My advice to anyone who loves to read or write is to love words first. Look at fonts and at print carefully. Ignore what they mean and just marvel at what they look like.”

Mark Getty (1960) British businessman

City A.M.: "What I'm reading: Quickfire interview with Getty Images co-founder Mark Getty on his favourite books and the advice he'd give to aspiring writers" http://www.cityam.com/288100/im-reading-quickfire-interview-getty-images-co-founder-mark (25 June 2018)