Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:
“Since I know nothing of the merits of poetry, I am not able to pass any opinion upon this, but I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, ark and dark, true and grew do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“And catch the gleaming of a random light,
That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906)
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)