Marshall McLuhan Quotes about Writing

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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Marshall McLuhan

Writing, Magazines, Care

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

Marshall McLuhan

Writing, Science, People

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

Marshall McLuhan

Writing, Media

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Marshall McLuhan

Writing, Exploration, Absence

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Marshall McLuhan

Writing, Dark, Men

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan

Plato, Writing, Media

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Marshall McLuhan

Art, Attitude, Writing

"Understanding media: the extensions of man".

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

Marshall McLuhan

Mistake, Writing, Media

Marshall McLuhan Quotes about Writing

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