“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.” — Ronnell D. Porter Copy Share Image
“The written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds” — Wes Moore - Bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.” — Paige Skyler Copy Share Image
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word. — John Newton Copy Share Image
“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image