Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is…

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…

— Fernando Pessoa

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are…

— Steven Pinker

All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or…

— Henry Rollins

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;…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Cornelia Funke

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

— Neil Postman

“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this…

— Adolf Hitler

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to…

— Neil Gaiman

“Every thought shines a light. Every thought shows the way.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat.,…

— Horace

While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word,…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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…

— Saoirse Ronan

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

“Communication isn't about telling our story. That's undisciplined, self-indulgent, and often illusory. The power of communication is getting audiences to listen--and to care.”

— Helio Fred Garcia