Walter J. Ong quotes

“There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.”
-- Walter J. Ong

Source : Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul A. Soukup (2002). “An Ong reader: challenges for further inquiry”, Hampton Pr

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes

“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. Ong

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“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. Ong

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge

#Closure Quotes #Found Quotes #States Quotes

“For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous”
-- Walter J. Ong

Source : Walter J. Ong, John Hartley (2012). “Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word”, p.72, Routledge

#Way Quotes

“Learners are doers, not recipients.”
-- Walter J. Ong

#Doers Quotes #Learners Quotes

“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”

“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“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.

“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”