Quotes about Written Word

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. Votes: 8

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. Votes: 8

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it. Votes: 7

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words. Votes: 6

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. Votes: 6

While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Votes: 6

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. Votes: 6

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. Votes: 6

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. Votes: 6

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. Votes: 6

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. Votes: 6

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone. Votes: 6

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. Votes: 6

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do. Votes: 6

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out. Votes: 6

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image. Votes: 5

The written word is everything. Votes: 4

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. Votes: 4

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film. Votes: 4

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. Votes: 4

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word. Votes: 4

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. Votes: 4

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally. Votes: 4

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word. Votes: 4

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. Votes: 4

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. Votes: 4

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature Votes: 4

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. Votes: 4

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners. Votes: 4

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors? Votes: 4

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. Votes: 4

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. Votes: 4

The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it. Votes: 4

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience. Votes: 4

We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry. Votes: 4

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. Votes: 3

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears Votes: 3

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation. Votes: 3

The writer identifies the thought behind every written word. Votes: 3

The written word is the link between the past and the future. Votes: 3

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word, Votes: 3

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written. Votes: 3

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. Votes: 3

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word. Votes: 3

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. Votes: 3

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. Votes: 3

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word Votes: 3

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. Votes: 3

The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word. Votes: 3

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word. Votes: 3

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. Votes: 3

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur. Votes: 3

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. Votes: 3

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus Votes: 3

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. Votes: 3

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word. Votes: 3

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. Votes: 3

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word. Votes: 3

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. Votes: 3

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. Votes: 3

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. Votes: 3

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. Votes: 3

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word. Votes: 3

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. Votes: 3

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. Votes: 3

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word. Votes: 3

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. Votes: 3

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word. Votes: 3

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word. Votes: 3

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. Votes: 3

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word. Votes: 3

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. Votes: 3

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. Votes: 3

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience. Votes: 3

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can. Votes: 3

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video. Votes: 3

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. Votes: 3

The devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. Don't make me preach now, but you are the living epistle, the written word of Christ. Votes: 3

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way. Votes: 3

-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries! Votes: 3

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man? Votes: 3

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Votes: 3

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. Votes: 3

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. Votes: 3

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page Votes: 3

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest. Votes: 3

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could. Votes: 3

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars. Votes: 3

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth. Votes: 3

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life. Votes: 3

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done. Votes: 3

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do. Votes: 3

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] Votes: 3

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. Votes: 3

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds. Votes: 3

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. Votes: 3

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. Votes: 3

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page. Votes: 3

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him. Votes: 3

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word. Votes: 3

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands. Votes: 3

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word. Votes: 3

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word. Votes: 3

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. Votes: 3

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word. Votes: 3

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order. Votes: 3

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. Votes: 3

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing. Votes: 3

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Votes: 3

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice. Votes: 3

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing. Votes: 3

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone. Votes: 3

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book. Votes: 3

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. Votes: 3

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal. Votes: 3

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing. Votes: 3

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. Votes: 3

Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context. Votes: 3

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home. Votes: 3

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. Votes: 3

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this. Votes: 3

My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing. But when he selected one of my essays as the best in the class, it gave me the confidence to see myself as a writer. Votes: 3

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. Votes: 3

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. Votes: 3

If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice. Votes: 3

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary. Votes: 3

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within. Votes: 3

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful. Votes: 3

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word. Votes: 3

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right. Votes: 3

There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply...the person who wants to read what I have written. Votes: 3

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers. Votes: 3

When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. Votes: 3

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. Votes: 2

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994. Votes: 2

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' Votes: 2

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. Votes: 2

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. Votes: 2

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. Votes: 2

Every word written is a victory against death. Votes: 0

The true word of God is written in our heart. Votes: 0

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. Votes: 0

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. Votes: 0

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more. Votes: 0

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. Votes: 0

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. Votes: 0

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. Votes: 0

I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall. Votes: 0

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written. Votes: 0

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money. Votes: 0

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #"Ž change our lives. Votes: 0

Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written. Votes: 0

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written. Votes: 0

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth. Votes: 0

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done. Votes: 0

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem. Votes: 0

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event. Votes: 0

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM Votes: 0

Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth. Votes: 0

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Votes: 0

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. Votes: 0

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it. Votes: 0

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane. Votes: 0

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written. Votes: 0

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written. Votes: 0

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. Votes: 0

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. Votes: 0

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it. Votes: 0

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me. Votes: 0

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means! Votes: 0

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word. Votes: 0

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed. Votes: 0

Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. Votes: 0

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning! Votes: 0

Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It's earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written! Votes: 0

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word. Votes: 0