The Written World Quotes

“Like ancient scribes, we are once again scrolling down texts and sitting hunched over tablets. How to make sense of this combination of old and new?”
― Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

“After having been made a wife to an older man and an attendant to a princess, the identity she chose to retain was the one she had acquired by her own initiative: that of an author.”
― Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

“Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.”
― Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

“This is the genius of Don Quixote, a helpless fool who is mad as hell at the world, capturing our collective experience of modern mechanical civilization.”
― Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

“In a way, everyone was a Don Quixote, their heads alive with plots and characters, even if they didn’t act on them directly.”
― Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization