5 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Writing

Thomas Carlyle quotes on writing

17. Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.

18. In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

38. He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

82. In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

84. All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.