Written word Quotes

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...

— Hart Crane

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

— Neil Postman

“Music is LIFE and the written word is our SOUL...”

— Madison Daniel

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

— Lincoln Barnett

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

— Anonymous

“The joy is is in the written word”

— A.C. Gaughen

“A chapter written is a word learned.”

— Chloé Claes

“It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.”

— Lisa See

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

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

— David LaChapelle

“The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.”

— Ronnell D. Porter

“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.”

— Wes Moore

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

— William Gibson

“If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!”

— Junnita Jackson

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

— Megan Whalen Turner

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and…

— John Galsworthy

“The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and…

— Paulo Coelho

“In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs…

— Lawrence Hill

“A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the…

— José Saramago

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an…

— Bertrand Russell

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is…

— Elisabeth Elliot

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given…

— Theodore Bikel

“Fashion rhythms of life that help you revolve around having God’s incarnate Word, by God’s gospel word, through God’s written word.”

— David Mathis

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through…

— Ellen Lupton

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and…

— Mary-Louise Parker

The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows.…

— Sidney Jourard

We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to…

— Francis Chan

My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my…

— Cornelia Funke

There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which…

— Jamie Lidell

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is…

— Lawrence Hill

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have…

— Sven Birkerts

The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books…

— Cees Nooteboom

“I do not write because I am good at it. And I do not bleed ink from my pen seeking honor from…

— Tonny K. Brown

“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words…

— Rick Moody

“The written word is an attempt at completeness when there is no one impatiently awaiting you in a dimly lit bedroom--awaiting your…

— Morrissey

“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It…

— Neil Postman

When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs.…

— Ha Jin

I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the…

— Sting