Best Written Word Quotes
97 Written Word quotes by 90 unique authors
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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
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
— Neville Brody
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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
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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
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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
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The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
— Walter Moers
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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
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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
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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
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The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.
— Florence Littauer
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I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.
— J D Salinger
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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
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There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
— Malala Yousafzai
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The written word is everything.
— John Drinkwater
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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
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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
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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
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The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
— James Lafferty
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
— Nora Roberts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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