Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Writing
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Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.
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In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
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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.
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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.
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All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.