I'm writing because I can't speak anything.

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other…

— James Frey

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

— Frederick Buechner

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow…

— Deena Metzger

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The reality is…

— Martha Wainwright

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

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad…

— Emily Dickinson

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

— Johnny Hunt

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

— Anonymous

“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to…

— Susan C. Young

Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I just speak the truth. I keep it real.

— Marlon Vera

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard