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97 Written Word quotes by 90 unique authors

The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of… — Sidney Jourard
Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written. — Neville Brody
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me… — Cees Nooteboom
But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was… — Betsy Lerner
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,… — Bianca Jagger
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers
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 transmutes,… — Dan Beachy-Quick
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… — Elizabeth Kim
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… — Steven Spielberg
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer
I'm up to my ears in unwritten words. — J D Salinger
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… — Peter Drucker
There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. — Malala Yousafzai
The written word is everything. — John Drinkwater
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. — Marguerite Yourcenar
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner… — Andre Breton
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. — James Lafferty
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. — Nora Roberts
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… — Henning Mankell
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… — Randy Wayne White
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… — Terence Fisher
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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… — Katherine Paterson
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… — Steven Pinker

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