Walter J. Ong quotes
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“There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.”
-- Walter J. OngSource : Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul A. Soukup (2002). “An Ong reader: challenges for further inquiry”, Hampton Pr
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“Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.”
-- Walter J. OngSource : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge
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“Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.”
-- Walter J. OngSource : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge
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“For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous”
-- Walter J. OngSource : Walter J. Ong, John Hartley (2012). “Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word”, p.72, Routledge
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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