The written word quotes

#1. The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always … first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it. #Quote by Frank Sinatra

#2. Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word … but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. #Quote by James Howe

#3. I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. #Quote by Oriana Fallaci

#4. Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been here for tens of thousands of years longer than film, moving pictures, video, and digital video, and words will likely be here after those media too. When the electromagnetic pulse comes in the wake of the nuclear blast? Those computers and digital video cameras and videotape recorders that are not melted outright will be plastic and metal husks used to prop open doors. Not so with the utterances of tongues. Words will remain, and the highly complicated and idiosyncratic accounts assembled from them will provide us with the dark news about the blast. The written word will remain, scribbled on collapsed highway overpasses, as a testament to love and rage, as evidence of the wanderers in the ruin. #Quote by Rick Moody

#5. 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 intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves. #Quote by Betsy Lerner

#6. Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists:faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise … it offers range and versatility with all the potential imagery of film and painting plus the intimacy of the written word. And all that’s needed is the desire to be heard
the will to learn
and the ability to see. #Quote by Scott McCloud

#7. I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word. #Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

#8. My wife loves written words … you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same — but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that’s what I want. — Cosimo #Quote by Cornelia Funke

#9. But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film. #Quote by Terri Windling

#10. The principles of spiritual kingdom has been packaged in the written word of God #Quote by Sunday Adelaja

#11. Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone. #Quote by Douglas Adams

#12. When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. #Quote by Colleen Atwood

#13. Hello Everyone! My name is Dan Brown and in the course of writing my first novel, some other guy, claiming to be me, had the chutzpah to steal my name and publish a book about some code that apparently became quite popular, so much so in fact that copies of it, as well as subsequent novels by the same guy, now accost me every time I visit a brick & mortar or online bookstore these days. Long story short, when I published my first novel (Roll Over, Hitler!) this past month, I decided to use my full name – Daniel Bruce Brown – which would have pleased my parents to no end had they still been alive, but basically makes me unknown to anyone who knows me by Dan Brown, which has to be, I don’t know, at least ten or fifteen people. So, anyway, here I am, hoping to be «discovered» and, in the meantime, hoping to make some new friends among folks who love the written word as much as I do. #Quote by Daniel Bruce Brown

#14. If God ever commands the spirit of wisdom to depart from me, well, I reckon that I’ll never be able to compose the written word again. Not in music, and not in literature. If there is a blank page before me, it wouldn’t matter if my right hand held a thousand dollar ink pen from the House of Montblanc, or an ink pen branded Paper Mate, not one word would be jotted from the ink of either or, and the page would remain blank. («Primary Blog: The Final Post at the Boutique Domain,» 2015) #Quote by Cat Ellington

#15. The written word is the choicest of relics. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#16. Dor came from a time before the written word, a time
when if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. This time was different. The tools of
this era — phones, computers — enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they
accomplished, they were never at peace. They constantly checked their devices to see what time it was
the very thing Dor had tried to determine once with a stick, a stone, and a shadow. #Quote by Mitch Albom

#17. He’d no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway. #Quote by Colin Dexter

#18. Cherish the Written Word! #Quote by John Fioravanti

#19. The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations. #Quote by Chinua Achebe

#20. Scripture moves through human history like the breath of God. The evolution of language does not render God’s words fallible, nor does it negate his power to preserve. An inerrant Bible exceeds all doctrines of Christianity, transcending the deity of Jesus Christ, his virgin birth, his death, or his resurrection; for God’s words bring these truths to us. God literally magnifies his written word above his name. God’s words project himself. Inspiration without preservation would be worthless. #Quote by Joseph Dulmage

#21. You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven. #Quote by Amy Layne Litzelman

#22. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage. #Quote by Italo Calvino

#23. I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination — centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. #Quote by Zoe Kazan

#24. Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. ‪Accept and respect‬ people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare the flint! #Quote by Deeba Salim Irfan

#25. To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them, in their traditional robes and the resting camels by their campfire, intently regarding writing with such immense respect … that illiteracy meant subsistence, while literacy meant human advancement, the base on which higher achievements and accomplishments of great civilizations could be built. #Quote by T.K. Naliaka

#26. «So we’d get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we’d read poetry to each other.» And my grandfather told me all the stories. I mean, their way of communicating … They didn’t have telephones, either, so they communicated with the written word. And I really … That’s how old [Bill] Clinton has become to me [ speaking of how he met Hillary Clinton]. #Quote by Rush Limbaugh

#27. Humans are conversant in many media (music, dance, painting), but all of them are analog except for the written word, which is naturally expressed in digital form (i.e. it is a series of discrete symbols — every letter in every book is a member of a certain character set, every «a» is the same as every other «a,» and so on). As any communications engineer can tell you, digital signals are much better to work with than analog ones because they are easily copied, transmitted, and error-checked. Unlike analog signals, they are not doomed to degradation over time and distance. That #Quote by Neal Stephenson

#28. Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word.
When I read: I want to feel…
When I write: I want you to feel…
©2014 Suzanne Steele #Quote by Suzanne Steele

#29. So, what do you go for in a girl?»
He crows, lifting a lager to his lips
Gestures where his mate sits
Downs his glass
«He prefers tits I prefer ass. What do you go for in a girl?»
I don’t feel comfortable
The air left the room a long time ago
All eyes are on me
Well, if you must know I want a girl who reads
Yeah. Reads.
I’m not trying to call you a chauvinist
Cos I know you’re not alone in this but…
I want a girl who reads
Who needs the written word & uses the added vocabulary
She gleans from novels and poetry
To hold lively conversation In a range of social situations
I want a girl who reads
Who’s heart bleeds at the words of Graham Greene Or even Heat magazine
Who’ll tie back her hair while reading Jane Eyre
And goes cover to cover with each water stones three for two offer but
I want a girl who doesn’t stop there
I want a girl who reads
Who feeds her addiction for fiction
With unusual poems and plays
That she hunts out in crooked bookshops for days and days and days
She’ll sit addicted at breakfast, soaking up the back of the cornflakes box
And the information she gets from what she reads makes her a total fox
Cos she’s interesting & unique & her theories make me go weak at the knees
I want a girl who reads
A girl who’s eyes will analyze
The menu over dinner
Who’ll use what she learn #Quote by Mark Grist

#30. Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord’s Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament. #Quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer

#31. Remember that for all the books we have in print, are as many that have never reached print, have never been written down-even now, in this age of compulsive reverence for the written word, history, even social ethic, are taught by means of stories, and the people who have been conditioned into thinking only in terms of what is written-and unfortunately nearly all the products of our educational system can do no more than this-are missing what is before their eyes. For instance, the real history of Africa is still in the custody of black storytellers and wise men, black historians, medicine men: it is a verbal history, still kept safe from the white man and his predations. Everywhere, if you keep your mind open, you will find the words not written down. So never let the printed page be your master. Above all, you should know that the fact that you have to spend one year, or two years, on one book, or one author means that you are badly taught-you should have been taught to read your way from one sympathy to another, you should be learning to follow you own intuitive feeling about what you need; that is what you should have been developing, not the way to quote from other people. #Quote by Doris Lessing

#32. I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. #Quote by Albert Einstein

#33. Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. #Quote by Gail Carriger

#34. At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word … ) has the potential to improve our lives, wound it, and also to create unexpected accidents. It’s not the technology that’s the problem, it’s us, the users. However angelic or demonic, or thoughtful or thoughtless we happen to be is then amplified by our technologies. #Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi

#35. Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars. #Quote by Fernando Pessoa

#36. This is the cardinal virtue of an Objective narrative. Given its timeless nature, there is no need to assemble it with rackets and ruses. With the envy of eunuchs and ingenuity fanned by resentment, men incapable of profound insights deny the Objective nature of the written word in the despairing hope of dissuading those who know the Truth and have the courage to write it.

I, Petronius Jablonski, hereby forbid any and all Freudian, structural, post-structural, post-post-structural, post-colonial, post-anything analysis or deconstruction of my annals and condemn any and all such enterprises. All theorizing based on class, gender, and ethnicity is strictly prohibited.

An Objective narrative is not a Rorschach blot for one to project his pathologies and sundry whines. If the Reader insists on «reading into» the narrative, he should fill the margins with sketches of penises, vaginas, and stick-figures engaged in coitus. #Quote by Petronius Jablonski

#37. Mysteries are fine things, but the written word should be preserved, intact, and free of extraneous error. #Quote by Sandra Staas

#38. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it—whether it cripples the mind’s power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness. #Quote by Maggie Nelson

#39. Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up. #Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

#40. It [writing] has enormous meta-cognitive implications. The power is this: That you cannot only think in ways that you could not possibly think if you did not have the written word, but you can now think about the thinking that you do with the written word. There is danger in this, and the danger is that the enormous expressive and self-referential capacities of the written word, that is, the capacities to keep referring to referring to referring, will reach a point where you lose contact with the real world. And this, believe me, is very common in universities. There’s a technical name for it, I don’t know if we can use it on television, it’s called «bullshit.» But this is very common in academic life, where people just get a form of self-referentiality of the language, where the language is talking about the language, which is talking about the language, and in the end, it’s hot air. That’s another name for the same phenomenon. #Quote by John Rogers Searle

#41. The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. ‘The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.’ The life is in the speaking words. God’s word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God’s Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book. #Quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer

#42. Writers strive to create definitive statements but forget that their work is often viewed through the cracked spectacles of perception. Others can take what is written, twist it to their own agenda and present it back to the author as fact, contrary to the original intention. #Quote by Stewart Stafford

#43. God expresses His will to us through His written word. Do we truly believe that? Because to say, «This commandment is irrelevant,» is to say, «God’s will for my life in this area isn’t important to me.» God is the one who makes the rules, not us. #Quote by David Wilber

#44. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. #Quote by Anais Nin

#45. The Written Word
The only thing I hold dearer than myself
(and my moms, yo’) ~

is the written word.

I’d give my life for that bitch,
(yo’.) #Quote by Beryl Dov

#46. The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second. #Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

#47. A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction #Quote by Jose Saramago

#48. Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The blacks were taking their part in the destruction of European feudalism begun by the French Revolution, and liberty and equality, the slogans of the revolution, meant far more to them than to any Frenchman. That was why in the hour of danger Toussaint, uninstructed as he was, could find the language and accent of Diderot, Rousseau, and Raynal, of Mirabeau, Robespierre and Danton. And in one respect he excelled them all. For even these masters of the spoken and written word, owing to the class complications of their society, too often had to pause, to hesitate, to qualify. Toussaint could defend the freedom of the blacks without reservation, and this gave to his declaration a strength and a single-mindedness rare in the great documents of the time. The French bourgeoisie could not understand it. Rivers of blood were to flow before they understood that elevated as was his tone Toussaint had written neither bombast nor rhetoric but the simple and sober truth. #Quote by C.L.R. James

#49. I don’t think you can write — at least not well — if you don’t love stories, love the written word. #Quote by Nora Roberts

#50. Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way. #Quote by Orville Prescott

#51. If loving the written word is wrong … I don’t want to be right! #Quote by Junnita Jackson

#52. Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension. Sometimes the city speaks to the page, or the page seems to open up to people passing by. An outdoor reader shares the pulse of a timeless urban conversation between the world and the written word. #Quote by Nina Bernstein

#53. 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, leaving an indelible image. #Quote by Bianca Jagger

#54. I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word. #Quote by Mike Mills

#55. But unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well. #Quote by Nicholas Sparks

#56. The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses — the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing — & the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else. #Quote by Annie Dillard

#57. 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 tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word. #Quote by Steven Spielberg

#58. Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. #Quote by Adora Svitak

#59. There’s another quote on the act of writing letters, have a look: Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have changed; words are lost with ever greater ease; you can see them float on the waters of history; sink, come up again, mixed in by the current with the water hyacinths. #Quote by Ricardo Piglia

#60. It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. #Quote by Hugh Mackay

#61. Its focus wasn’t on the written word but how the word was written. #Quote by Neville Brody

#62. Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur. #Quote by Bruce Willis

#63. Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word. #Quote by Ina Catrinescu

#64. If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience. #Quote by George Whitefield

#65. I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers. #Quote by Adolf Hitler

#66. What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. #Quote by Megan Whalen Turner

#67. 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 honestly about their lives by our ancestors? #Quote by Randy Wayne White

#68. I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own. #Quote by Dexter Palmer

#69. Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That’s how shows build a critical mass on cable. #Quote by Walton Goggins

#70. 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, and the spoken word winds through the ear’s labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve’s realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world’s image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully. #Quote by Dan Beachy-Quick

#71. Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word. #Quote by Alice McDermott

#72. 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 truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing. #Quote by Henning Mankell

#73. Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. #Quote by Teresa Mummert

#74. There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply … the person who wants to read what I have written. #Quote by Will Self

#75. God will never — never — lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible. #Quote by Billy Graham

#76. A few letter-writers had taken refuge in doorways, their old voiceprinters wrapped in sheets of clear plastic, evidence that the written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. #Quote by William Gibson

#77. Logic might be imagined to exist independent of writing — syllogisms can be spoken as well as written — but it did not. Speech is too fleeting to allow for analysis. Logic descended from the written word, in Greece as well as India and China, where it developed independently. Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience. Logic takes its form in chains: sequences whose members connect one to another. Conclusions follow from premises. These require a degree of constancy. They have no power unless people can examine and evaluate them. In contrast, an oral narrative proceeds by accretion, the words passing by in a line of parade past the viewing stand, briefly present and then gone, interacting with one another via memory and association. #Quote by James Gleick

#78. Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion. #Quote by John Churchill, 1st Duke Of Marlborough

#79. Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting «jazz» and «scat», as in «scat-singing», to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word. #Quote by David Lodge

#80. The written word may be man’s greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. #Quote by Abraham Lincoln

#81. 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 for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn’t right, and there’s no way to cross things out. #Quote by Cees Nooteboom

#82. Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word. #Quote by Billy Graham

#83. Reading is the parent of fine writing. It fosters familiarity with the written word & sets the template for a writer’s journey ~ Mark Rubinstein #Quote by Mark Rubinstein

#84. He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by those who set down and forget temporary, incomplete paragraphs. He was not working for posterity or even for God, whose literary tastes were unknown to him. Meticulously, motionlessly, secretly, he wrought in time his lofty, invisible labyrinth. He worked the third act over twice. He eliminated certain symbols as over-obvious, such as the repeated striking of the clock, the music. Nothing hurried him. He omitted, he condensed, he amplified. In certain instances he came back to the original version. He came to feel affection for the courtyard, the barracks; one of the faces before him modified his conception of Roemerstadt’s character. He discovered that the wearying cacophonies that bothered Flaubert so much are mere visual superstitions, weakness and limitation of the written word, not the spoken…He concluded his drama. He had only the problem of a single phrase. He found it. The drop of water slid down his cheek. He opened his mouth in a maddened cry, moved his face, dropped under the quadruple blast. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#85. Does the written word tame passions? Or subdue the forces of nature? Or does it find a harmony with the inhumanity of the universe? Or incubate a violence, held back but always ready to spring, to claw? #Quote by Italo Calvino

#86. There is beauty in the written word.’
-Kevin #Quote by T.J. Klune

#87. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one’s habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the «analytic management of knowledge. #Quote by Neil Postman

#88. We could argue that the ancient Egyptians were positively constrained by their hieroglyphic system of writing to express abstract qualities in a crudely physical way. Against such an interpretation, it is important to bear in mind that language is not simply the vehicle of expression of a given mentality, it actually is that mentality giving expression to itself. The very structures of language are the articulation of the mentality. We should be wary of thinking that the ancient Egyptian mind was «really» like ours, but was constrained by the hieroglyphic script. Rather, the hieroglyphic script was the medium most appropriate for the articulation of the ancient Egyptian mentality. Far from being crude, it reflected richly symbolic modes of conceiving and relating to both the physical and the psychic spheres of existence. It has already become apparent that these two spheres were not experienced as separated from each other — as we today tend to experience them. It is now necessary to go further, and seriously consider the idea that psychic attributes were indeed experienced as «situated» in various parts of the body. The pictorial character of the hieroglyphic form of writing made possible a quite effortless translation of this experience into the written word. For the hieroglyphic script, because it was pictorial, had not yet created a division between concrete and abstract, between «outer» and «inner.» And it had not done so just because the ancient Egyptian mentality had n #Quote by Jeremy Naydler

#89. When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool. #Quote by Ha Jin

#90. The scriptures are like a written «recording» of the «voice» of the Lord — a voice we feel in our hearts more than we hear with our ears. As we study the written word of God, we learn to hear His voice in the words we read. As we return repeatedly to the holy scriptures, we gain experience and confidence in hearing and feeling His voice.

Five basic principles can help us learn more effectively from our personal scripture study.

1. Pray for understanding and invite the help of the Holy Ghost.
Begin scripture study with prayer.
Ask for understanding as you study.
Express gratitude as you conclude.

2. Work.
Pay the price of regular and diligent study.

3. Be consistent.
Set aside a specific and scheduled time each day.

4. Ponder.
Think about the truths, experiences, and lessons in the scriptures.
Take time — pondering cannot be forced, hurried, or rushed.

5. Write down impressions, thoughts, and feelings.
Record what you learn, think, and feel.
Invite the Holy Ghost to continue instruction. #Quote by David A. Bednar

#91. We have entered a world of shorthand, precis, digest, summary, news flash, comic strip. We are bombarded with visual images, cutting from one to another, stabbing at the mind and put out with the rubbish sacks at the end of the week. The novel that took a man or woman years to create — in research, in planning of the plot and counter-plot, in construction — each word chosen, each phrase weighed against another, themes recurring, climaxes achieved — is now reduced to a four part serial, produced with pride in the accuracy of its sets and costumes, brilliantly acted, the music of the background authentic to the period. The words, but not the minds. The science, but not the significance. THE BOOK HAS BEEN MADE A THING TO WATCH, NOT TO LIVE. WE must FIGHT to save the WRITTEN WORD as we fight to save the whale. We must keep in our minds, a place apart, a sanctuary, where a lamp lights only the table at which we sit, where the curtains are drawn against the present time. Let us begin. #Quote by Pamela Brown

#92. I am of a temperament that needs the written word. For anything to have meaning, it has to be set down, it must live on paper before it is fully alive in my head. It has to be a series of words in a sequence in order to reveal a meaning and pattern. #Quote by Anuradha Roy

#93. I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. #Quote by David LaChapelle

#94. On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer’s feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance. #Quote by Roy Pascal

#95. While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. #Quote by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#96. You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair. #Quote by Franz Kafka

#97. I’m a poetry-skipper myself. I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country — make it any other two persons. This doesn’t mean that I hate poetry. I don’t feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose. #Quote by Will Cuppy

#98. Explanations are so much easier when one has time to construct them properly. #Quote by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

#99. To me, there’s no better way to stir the soul than through the power of the written word. #Quote by Jake Parent

#100. There’s nothing more powerful than the written word. It can transfer you to a place that exists right now that you’ll never get to visit or it can take you to a world that doesn’t. It can show you things you’ll never experience otherwise in life, and books … most importantly, they can take you out of your own world, and sometimes you need that. #Quote by J. Lynn

#101. The written word isn’t necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds #Quote by Wes Moore

#102. But now, all are tied up to the ordinary standing rule of the written word and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the will of God concerning us in difficult cases is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules and govern ourselves according to the analogy and proportion they bear towards each other. #Quote by John Flavel

#103. It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death. #Quote by Lisa See

#104. She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. #Quote by Jean Rhys

#105. The gifts and the lessons my father left me will last forever: Never take yourself too seriously, never miss a chance to laugh long and hard, speak out about political and social issues you believe in, use the written word as often as you can to make yourself and the world a better place, and love your children with all you’ve got.
My dad’s death had a seismic effect on me but so did his life. #Quote by Anne Serling

#106. Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium. #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#107. The written word offered subversive possibilities in a dictatorship, offered some hope of freedom. #Quote by Anjan Sundaram

#108. If I could read only great books for the rest of my days, I would be happy. But finding those books — for myself or any other reader — isn’t so easy. A «great» book means different things to different people.

When we talk about reading, we often focus on the books themselves, but so much of the reading life is about the reader as an active participant. To put a great book in your hands, here’s what I need to know: When you turn to the written word, what are you looking for? What themes speak to you? What sorts of places do you want to vicariously visit? What types of characters do you enjoy meeting on the page? What was the last story you wished would never end? Which was the last volume you hurled across the room?

Without the details of what «great» means to you, and without knowing what kind of reader you are, the question might be simple, but it’s impossible to answer. To hand you a great book, I don’t just need to know about books; I need to know you. #Quote by Anne Bogel

#109. I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do. #Quote by Gustav Klimt

#110. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend; he shall guide thee; he will direct all thy ways. In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Happy are we to have God’s Word always to guide us! #Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#111. The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. — Silvertongue #Quote by Cornelia Funke

#112. Then it dawned on me that men throughout the country had to know about nu shu (women’s written word). How could they not? They wore it on their embroidered shoes. They saw us weaving our messages into cloth. They heard us singing our songs and showing off our third-day wedding books. Men just considered our writing beneath them.

It is said men have the hearts of iron, while women are made of water. This comes through men’s writing and women’s writing. Men’s writing has more than 50,000 characters, each uniquely different, each with deep meanings and nuances. Our women’s writing has 600 characters, which we use phonetically, like babies to create about 10,000 words. Men’s writing takes a lifetime to learn and understand. Women’s writing is something we pick up as girls, and we rely on the context to coax meaning. Men write about the outer realm of literature, accounts, and crop yields; women write about the inner realm of children, daily chores, and emotions. The men in the Lu household were proud of their wives’ fluency in nu shu and dexterity in embroidery, though these things had as much importance to survival as a pig’s fart. #Quote by Lisa See

#113. They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#114. Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. #Quote by Joseph Conrad

#115. Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him. #Quote by Louis L’Amour

#116. Concering the power of the written word #Quote by Julie Hearn

#117. Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word. #Quote by John Wimber

#118. Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature #Quote by Nadine Gordimer

#119. A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#120. No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. #Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie

#121. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books. #Quote by Idries Shah

#122. It’s true that life seems so more much exciting when you write it down as fantasy. But then again, there are some experiences in life that are simply too wondrous to be condensed into words. These are the things that must be felt in reality. The rest I will attempt to convey with the written word. #Quote by Ashley Townsend

#123. Just be yourself,» Connor tells him. «I know you probably fail at written word, but in person, you usually ace being who you are.»
«I’m going to ignore the part where you fucking insulted me.»
Connor grins. «Why? Those are the best parts.»
Ryke flips him off. #Quote by Krista Ritchie

#124. So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There’s just more going on. It’s an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. #Quote by Kurt Loder

#125. We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry. #Quote by Francis Chan

#126. There’s been resistance to every new technology that’s ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn’t stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful. #Quote by Jeremy Stoppelman

#127. I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive ‘stress’ of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word. #Quote by Francesca Lia Block

#128. To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralizations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense. It also means to weigh ideas, to compare and contrast assertions, to connect one generalization to another. To accomplish this, one must achieve a certain distance from the words themselves, which is, in fact, encouraged by the isolated and impersonal text. That is why a good reader does not cheer an apt sentence or pause to applaud even an inspired paragraph. Analytic thought is too busy for that, and too detached. #Quote by Neil Postman

#129. Music is LIFE and the written word is our SOUL… #Quote by Madison Daniel

#130. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice. #Quote by John Steinbeck

#131. Everything before the written word was pre-text.

From my book previously feared darkness #Quote by Robert Priest

#132. I had learning disabilities, and I couldn’t express myself in the written word. #Quote by Laura Linney

#133. Protestant insistence on the written word in the Bible as the only and sufficient Christian authority for faith and practice relies on an impossible anachronism that artificially projects a modern standard of authority and means of knowledge conveyance retrospectively back into a pre-modern reality that operated by different but reliable and legitimate standards. #Quote by Christian Smith

#134. The written word is so much like evidence — like something that can be used against you later. #Quote by Margaret Atwood

#135. How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words. #Quote by Cornelia Funke

#136. The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. #Quote by James Lafferty

#137. I believe that anyone who doesn’t read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do #Quote by Edward Bunker

#138. I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. #Quote by Sandra Bullock

#139. Even if the script’s well written there’s something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. #Quote by John Travolta

#140. It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] #Quote by Horace

#141. Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. #Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

#142. Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word. #Quote by Elie Wiesel

#143. Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell .Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm. #Quote by David Nicholls

#144. As long as people believe in the written word and a good story.. They will believe in me. #Quote by Solange Nicole

#145. Words inscribed in a heart can be more durable than words written on a stone #Quote by Munia Khan

#146. The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. — Balbulus #Quote by Cornelia Funke

#147. Have you noticed,’ she asked, straightening the counting frames to her liking before closing the cupboard doors and turning toward him, ‘that at church when the clergyman is giving his sermon everyone’s eyes glaze over and many people even nod off to sleep? But if he suddenly decides to illustrate a point with a little story, everyone perks up and listens. WE were made to tell and listen to stories, Joel, It is how knowledge was passed from person to person and generation to generation before there was the written word, and even afterward, when most people had no access to manuscripts or books and could not read them even if they did. Why do we now feel that storytelling should be confined to fiction and fantasy? Can we enjoy only what has no basis in fact? #Quote by Mary Balogh

#148. Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.
And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home. #Quote by Anna Quindlen

#149. To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make. #Quote by Truman Capote

#150. My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word. #Quote by Miranda Hart

#151. The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes … Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important … Don’t mumble or hesitate. Speak … in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear. #Quote by Jonathan D. Spence

#152. If one single invention was necessary to make this larger mechanism operative for constructive tasks as well as for coercion, it was probably the invention of writing. This method of translating speech into graphic record not merely made it possible to transmit impulses and messages throughout the system, but to fix accountability when written orders were not carried out. Accountability and the written word both went along historically with the control of large numbers; and it is no accident that the earliest uses of writing were not to convey ideas, religious or otherwise, but to keep temple records of grain, cattle, pottery, fabricated goods, stored and disbursed. This happened early, for a pre-dynastic Narmer mace in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford records the taking of 120,000 prisoners, 400,000 oxen, and 1,422,000 goats. The arithmetical reckoning was an even greater feat than the capture. #Quote by Lewis Mumford

#153. To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video. #Quote by Raghav Bahl

#154. The written word endures, the spoken word disappears #Quote by Neil Postman

#155. I guess it was easier to hide her sadness behind the written word than to disguise the emptiness in her voice. #Quote by John Marrs

#156. The written word is the link between the past and the future. #Quote by Lincoln Barnett

#157. I’m consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note — «I’m getting married. I’ll be there in a week,» — and no further explanation whatsoever.»
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word. #Quote by Mercedes Lackey

#158. But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home … #Quote by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#159. I am exploiting the written word with the utmost ease. This alarms me, for I am afraid of losing my sense of order and of plunging into an abyss resounding with cries and shrieks: The Hell of human freedom. But I shall continue #Quote by Clarice Lispector

#160. My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. #Quote by Joseph Conrad

#161. Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know, sometimes things we don’t want to know. #Quote by Amy Gail Hansen

#162. I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. #Quote by Adolf Hitler

#163. Telekinesis is moving things with your mind.
I move people with my words. #Quote by Anthony T. Hincks

#164. Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic. #Quote by George R R Martin

#165. I don’t think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it’s gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing. #Quote by Anita Loos

#166. My task is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. That
and no more, and it is everything. #Quote by Joseph Conrad

#167. Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don’t get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable … and, therefore, the inherently desirable. #Quote by Belle De Jour

#168. What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man? #Quote by Delores Phillips

#169. Becoming a writer is a lifelong journey. It cannot be learned in a day or even a month or a year. We will never fully learn all there is to know about our craft, and even if we did we wouldn’t realize it. We are filled with self-doubt by nature, and many of us will work our entire lives to master the art of the written word without ever recognizing the true talent we possess. Writing is a personal journey of self-discovery and growth, and should be honored as such. If you wonder about my best writing, I would say it came without warning, in moments when I was most vulnerable — with the door shut and my heart split wide open. #Quote by Shanda Trofe Write From The Heart

#170. The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. #Quote by A.E. Samaan

#171. There are many kinds of powers in the world — military power, power of the written word, intellectual power. We’ve tried and failed to bring peace with these kind of powers. The greatest power is the power of love. #Quote by Mata Amritanandamayi

#172. Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context. #Quote by John Wesley

#173. Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but–further–she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, I heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral; it had the vivid orderliness that I imagined would belong to conversation if one were so fortunate as to be born from the head of Zeus and not from the Grecos, the Cerullos. #Quote by Elena Ferrante

#174. It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again. #Quote by Lemony Snicket

#175. the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. Speech #Quote by Steven Pinker

#176. I used to be that person who read two 400-page books a week. Now I carry around a book with me everywhere I go to try to remember what it feels like to feel that connection within the pages because I can’t concentrate to read further than a paragraph, or remember it, for that matter. Every time I see someone engrossed in a novel, it’s bittersweet, because I miss what it is like to get lost in the written word. I just want to be able to read like that again. #Quote by Unknown

#177. The sea has had Conrad and Stevenson and Masefield, but the mountains continue to defy the written word. We have climbed their highest peaks and crossed their most difficult passes, but still they keep their secrets and their reserve; they remain remote, mysterious, spirit-haunted. #Quote by Ruskin Bond

#178. Punctuation is no more a class issue than the air we breathe. It is a system of printers’ marks that has aided the clarity of the written word for the past half-millennium, and if its time has come to be replaced, let’s just use this moment to celebrate what an elegant and imaginative job it did while it had the chance. #Quote by Lynne Truss

#179. The written word can be powerful and beautiful — but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can. #Quote by Saoirse Ronan

#180. Partly because it is such a complex process, reading is not just a habit our a skill, it’s a deeply satisfying emotional experience. Something in us knows that the slimmest insights, the trust wisdom, the most enduring knowledge come through this channel. The spleen word rushes by and is gone, but the written word remains. It ensures. It can be consulted over and over again. Forever.

How wise then to surround oneself with books and magazines.

How wise to love them, and to teach one’s children to love them.

How wise to read! #Quote by Arthur Gordon Those Little Black Marks, Quoted In Norman Vincent Peale, (c 1984), P. 56.

#181. Unless you’re doing Shakespeare or Chekhov … the written word is not sacrosanct. #Quote by Alan Arkin

#182. Writing comes from the angels in your soul. The gifts there are shared through the keyboard to the page. The reader finds everything they need by your written word. #Quote by Barbara Beck-Elam

#183. Whenever we read a line of the Bible, we must say, Lord Jesus, let me contact You in the divine Word. Lord, You are the living Word. Without You as the living Word I can receive nothing as life from the written Word. Lord, I must contact You. Although You are so mysterious, I praise You that You have given me such a tangible Word. This Word is solid, concrete, and substantial. I thank You for the Word that I can read and pray with. Yet, Lord, what I need is not the letter in black and white, but You, the living Spirit. #Quote by Witness Lee

#184. After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not — or were not permitted to — read, were given sermons by the few who could. #Quote by Theodore Bikel

#185. Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word. Socrates thought that the book would do terrible things to our memories. #Quote by Clay A. Johnson

#186. When you are mute, you become a good listener — it’s all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. #Quote by James Earl Jones

#187. I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. #Quote by Rabih Alameddine

#188. If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that’s where you’ll find the most successful work being done. #Quote by Alan Thicke

#189. She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. #Quote by David Nicholls

#190. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express
verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner
the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. #Quote by Andre Breton

#191. So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass. #Quote by Tom Robbins

#192. What God did, however, was subject his written word to the same historical process as he did with his incarnate Word, Jesus. The Bible is both a divine and human entity: divine in its inspiration and preservation, human in the sense of God’s subjecting it to the historical process and entrusting it to the church. In this way, writes George Eldon Ladd, «the Bible is the Word of God given in the words of men in history. #Quote by Arthur G. Patzia

#193. All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. #Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

#194. Cristofer did not write because he feared forgetting something. He never forgot anything, even when he reached old age. For Cristofer, the written word seemed to regulate the world. Stop its fluctuations. Prevent notions from eroding. This is why Cristofer’s sphere of interest was so broad. According to the writer’s thinking, that sphere should correspond to the world’s breadth.

Cristofer usually left his writings in the places where he had made them: on the bench, on the stove, on the woodpile. He did not pick them up when the fell to the floor: he vaguely anticipated their discovery, much later, in a cultural stratum. Cristofer understood that the written word would always remain that way. No matter what happened later, once it had been written, the word had already occurred. #Quote by Evgenij Vodolazkin

#195. 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 be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. #Quote by Katherine Paterson

#196. Paarfi undertakes a detailed examination on the virtues of brevity:
It would seem, therefore, that if we allow our readers, by virtue of being in the company of the historian, to eavesdrop on this interchange, we will have, in one scene, discharged two obligations; a sacrifice, if we may say so, to the god Brevity, whom all historians, indeed, all who work with the written word, ought to worship. We cannot say too little on this subject. #Quote by Steven Brust

#197. I really admired Cesar Chavez and Gandhi, but my form of activism would have to be the written word, not the empty stomach. My parents had brought my family t the United States because of the fear of empty stomachs. #Quote by Josefina Lopez

#198. The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#199. The Poet Asks His Love to Write»

Visceral love, living death,
in vain, I wait your written word,
and consider, with the flower that withers,
I wish to lose you, if I have to live without self.

The air is undying: the inert rock
neither knows shadow, nor evades it.
And the heart, inside, has no use
for the honeyed frost the moon pours.

But I endured you: ripped open my veins,
a tiger, a dove, over your waist,
in a duel of teeth and lilies.

So fill my madness with speech,
or let me live in my calm
night of the soul, darkened for ever. #Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

#200. Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word. #Quote by Ivan Doig

#201. The task is the same in every generation: If God’s Word is to be heard, we who love it must stand in its defense. #Quote by James R. White

#202. Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel’s will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life. #Quote by Peter Agre

#203. The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one’s generosity? Why regret one’s impulsiveness, one’s misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you’d written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don’t cherish us as we’d cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them. #Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

#204. Like I’ve told you before, Mrs. Harris, I’m gay. I fuck men.» He snapped, every single word dripping with sarcasm. «That means nothing about you appeals to me, especially not your wide open legs. But even if I, all of a sudden, got the urge to take one for the team, I wouldn’t fuck your worn out pussy to save the lives of a dozen children!» Said by Haven Naranjo #Quote by Phetra H. Novak

#205. My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments — we hear a word that sticks in our mind — or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly — we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen — or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station.

And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection — certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real — this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#206. I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you’re saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word. #Quote by Robert H. Schuller

#207. As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you’ve been told. #Quote by Cinda Williams Chima

#208. You are important to me, she said, and touched his face. Important. The word swelled and deflated. More than he’d thought. Less than he wanted. #Quote by Marie Rutkoski

#209. My brother, if it’s not in the Bible, He’s not in it!! If it’s not in the Word of God, He is not in it. #Quote by Benny Hinn

#210. I imagined my first night alone in bed with my stranger. I conjured our future years together unhampered by worries about money or officialdom. We would enjoy the day, the night, a smile, a word, a kiss, a glance. All lovely thoughts. All pointless dreams. #Quote by Lisa See

#211. Bored is a four-letter word. #Quote by Jill M. Singleton

#212. Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom. #Quote by Julie Lessman

#213. Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded. #Quote by Erica Jong

#214. A blanket could be used to sell your winningest product to your loserest customer. Oh, loserest is a word. I know, because I just wrote it. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#215. Soulmates. That was the word. Maggie could sense what it meant. Two people connected, bound to each other forever, soul to soul, in a way that even death couldn’t break. Two souls that were destined for each other. #Quote by L.J.Smith

#216. With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift. #Quote by Justin Guarini

#217. Nana and Pops were waiting in the living room. They had their recliners pushed in front of the couch, the only place available for Cole and me to sit. The moment we were in position, the interrogation began.
Pops: Plans for the future?
Groaning, I dropped my head in my hands. He’d kicked things off with Justin the exact same way. Guaranteed, he’d end the same way.
Cole: College, law enforcement.
Nana: Oh, I like him better than that other boy already.
Pops: Good, that’s good. Now finish this sentence for me. When a girl says no, she means…
Yep. Exactly the same.
Cole: No. And that’s that. I don’t push for more.
Nana: Another excellent answer. But here’s an even tougher sentence for you to finish. Premarital sex is…
I should have let the zombies have me.
Cole: Up to the couple. What happens between them is no one else’s business. Sorry, but not even yours.
Both Pops ans Nana blustered over that for a minute, but they soon calmed down. I, of course, blushed the most horrifying shade of lobster. (That was just a guess.) However, I found Cole’s answer exceptional.
Pops: That’s fair enough, I guess. So how do you feel about drinking and driving?
Cole: I think it’s stupid, that’s one thing you’ll never have to worry about with me and Ali. I never drink, and if she does, I won’t take advantage of her. I’d bring her home. I’ll always look out for her safety, you have my word.
«I won’t be drinking, #Quote by Gena Showalter

#218. And then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini. #Quote by Archie Macpherson

#219. Colonies are much, much more. Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. Where he can fall on his slender prey roaring as loud as he feels like, and guzzle her blood with open joy. Eh? Where he can just wallow and rut and let himself go in a softness, a receptive darkness of limbs, of hair as woolly as the hair on his own forbidden genitals. Where the poppy, and cannabis and coca grow full and green, and not to the colors and style of death, as do ergot and agaric, the blight and fungus native to Europe. Christian Europe was always death, Karl, death and repression. Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts. . . . No word ever gets back. The silences down here are vast enough to absorb all behavior, no matter how dirty, how animal it gets. . . . #Quote by Thomas Pynchon

#220. There is a word in South Africa — ubuntu — that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us, #Quote by Barack Obama

#221. If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is ‘slowly.’ #Quote by Mal Peet

#222. I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web. #Quote by Dannika Dark

#223. Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one. #Quote by Matt Bondurant

#224. Nous avons ete amies,» I added. «There,that’s two in French, and using past perfect, no less.»
I couldn’t see his expression clearly. It flet like a long time before he said anything. «Ella…» He paused, then, «What happened? Between you and Anna?»
«Other than the fact that I’m a fashion-impaired poor kid who draws doorknobs? Haven’t a clue.»
Alex leaned forward. Now I could see his face. He looked annoyed. «Why do you do that? Diminish yourself?»
«I don’t-«
«Bullshit.»
I could feel my cheeks flaming, feel my shoulders curving inward. «I don’t-«
«Right.Don’t.Just don’t, with me, anyway. I like you better feisty.»
I couldn’t help it; that made me smile. «Did you really just say ‘feisty’?»
«I did.It’s a good word.»
«It’s am old word, favored by granddads and pirates.»
«Yar,» Alex sighed.
«Face it.You’re just an old-fashioned guy.»
«Whatever.Three…?»
«Three,» I said, and changed my mind midthought. «I haven’t been able to decide if Willing is the second best thing that ever happened to me, or the second worst.»
«What are the firsts?»
«Nope.Uh-uh.It is not for you to ask, Alexander Bainbridge, but to reveal.»
He drained his glass and rolled it back and forth between his hands. «I had all these funny admissions planned, but you’ve screwed up my plans. Hey. Don’t go all wounded-wide-eyed on me. It’s cute, that Bambi thing you have going, but beside the point.Now I have to rethink.»
«You don #Quote by Melissa Jensen

#225. It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene. #Quote by Christian Lander

#226. And Billy, if it’ll ease your mind any, I want you to know you’ve got a standing offer to come work for me when you’re done with your military service. All you’ve got to do is say the word. Now there was a depressing thought, although Billy could see how it might come to that, assuming best-case scenario he made it home with all his limbs and faculties intact. #Quote by Ben Fountain

#227. God uses prepared vessels, no substitute. God is not looking for a rocket scientist, he’s looking for those with a mind, and then he will finish the rest. It’s like, ‘God, here I am, send me,’ and He will do the rest. He will prepare you. He will provide for your preparation. One thing I have seen in all my years of travel all over the world and in teaching and in proclaiming the Gospel, whoever is hungry for the word, God will break every barrier to get to that person. And who wants to know God, God will make Himself available to that person — somewhere somehow. The problem the church is having today is we have so many unprepared vessels in the church, and it’s showing everywhere. #Quote by Moses C. Onwubiko

#228. The relationship between truth and reason:
Truth cannot be reached by reason alone! #Quote by Maurice Blondel

#229. I’m in total celebrity denial in general, but there’s awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, «She shows up in a ball gown,» but «She seemed nice.» That’s fine. #Quote by Julie Bowen

#230. Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us. #Quote by Alistair Begg

#231. The United States in the 1930s was rife with racism and antisemitism and suffering from the devastating effects of the Great Depression. Americans warily looked across the ocean at a worsening international situation and grew concerned about national security. Similar economic and security concerns — valid or not — have echoed throughout the decades in the face of most refugee crises since the Holocaust. No one knew the word ‘genocide’ until 1944, and few could imagine that a civilized country would systematically murder millions of people based on race or religion. If we don’t have a solution to a refugee crisis or genocide today, when the world is far more interconnected and we have the Holocaust and other genocides as precedents, why should it surprise us that Americans didn’t do more in the face of the Nazi threat? And indeed, when the war ended and the WRB dissolved, any lessons learned were promptly forgotten. The United States did not change the immigration laws or substantively address the issue of refugees for another twenty years. #Quote by Rebecca Erbelding

#232. In these written tears alone have I expiated the hardness and ingratitude of my heart of eighteen years. I can never read over these verses without adoring that youthful image which the transparent and plaintive waves of the Gulf of Naples will ever bring to me, — nor without hating myself. But souls above forgive. Hers has forgiven me. Forgive me, too, reader, for I have wept. #Quote by Alphonse De Lamartine

#233. The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered. #Quote by Lee Greenwood

#234. Like a song written on a piece of paper in the air, you may not see its notes, but as it glides, you can see its tune dance, from a love light so fair.

~Song of Susan #Quote by Benjamin Aubrey Myers

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 tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word. — Steven Spielberg

Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver. — Devdutt Pattanaik

When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, «It is finished» (John 19:30). The Greek word translated «it is finished» was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant «paid in full». Christ died so that the certificate of debt, consisting of all our sins, could once and for all be marked «paid in full». — Randy Alcorn

God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which confine instead of spread the public treasure. Let us break the seal which seals up holy things and give wings to Truth in order that she may win every soul that comes into the world by her word no longer written at great expense by hands easily palsied, but multiplied like the wind by an untiring machine. — Johannes Gutenberg

14 One should not have blind faith in a holy text.
15 One should not take a holy text as word for word truth.
16 Afterall, it’s just a book written by imperfect humans, not by the all- knowing Flying Spaghetti Monster.
17 Though I could be completely wrong about all of this.
18 Future Pastafarians are just gonna have to think for themselves and make up their own minds. — St John The Blasphemist

Nearly twenty years before, Hudson Taylor had written in an editorial: «All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.» As he looked at himself, Hudson Taylor saw nothing but weakness; but as generations of Christians have studied Taylor’s life, they have become acquainted with a man who dared to believe the Word of God and, by faith, carried the gospel to inland China — and saw God work wonders! «Want of trust is at the root of almost all our sins and all our weaknesses,» he wrote in that same editorial, «and how shall we escape it but by looking to Him and observing His faithfulness. The man who holds God’s faithfulness will not be foolhardy or reckless, but he will be ready for every emergency. — Warren W. Wiersbe

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word. — Sven Birkerts

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars. — Fernando Pessoa

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 horror came to me when I was very young. — Kim Elizabeth

Everything faded away except one emotion. One so pure and innocent that it seemed intangible. I was encompassed and filled with a sensation that was consuming, warming me throughout. There was a word that was the closest thing to describe it, but the gravity he held of it was so much more than a word could possibly convey. He saw everything I was to God, to this world, to his own heart. Our souls were entwined with it, our destinies written by it, our hearts beat to it.
Love. — Ashlan Thomas

I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it’s metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren’t included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian. — Jane Fonda

Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they had it then to come alive for us and in us and to make us more alive within ourselves. That, I suppose, is the final mystery as well as the final power of words: That not even across great distances of time and space do they ever lose their capacity for becoming incarnate. And when these words tell of virtue and nobility, when they move closer to that truth and gentleness of spirit by which we become fully human, the reading of them is sacramental; and a library is as holy a place as any temple is holy because through the words which are treasured in it the Word itself becomes flesh again and again and dwells among us and within us, full of grace and truth.
Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an essay called The Speaking and Writing of Words. — Frederick Buechner

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). — Reid A. Ashbaucher

Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper … The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies. — Jonathan Franzen

The Light in the Labyrinth is a beautifully written book, a gem. I savoured every word; words written with so much ‘colour’. Even though I know the story of Queen Anne Boleyn, Dunn’s perspective on her last days is missing in so many other books of the genre. Dunn gives grace to the history and an honest, and very compassionate look at Anne’s last days. I cried in the end, shedding tears for the young Kate, Anne and her little Bess. I have not yet read a Tudor book that has moved me to tears, as this wonderful journey does. Dunn’s dedication and research shines through in this unforgettable book, a book not just for young readers, but also for all.» — Lara Salzano, avid Tudor reader. — Wendy J. Dunn

What we call «the laws of nature» merely reflect the normal way in which God sustains or governs the natural world. Perhaps the most wicked concept that has captured the minds of modern people is the belief that the universe operates by chance. That is the nadir of foolishness. Elsewhere, I have written more extensively on the scientific impossibility of assigning power to chance, because chance is simply a word that describes mathematical possibilities.* Chance is not a thing. It has no power. It cannot do anything, and therefore it cannot influence anything, yet some have taken the word chance, which has no power, and diabolically used it as a replacement for the concept of God. But the truth, as the Bible makes clear, is that nothing happens by chance and that all things are under the sovereign government of God, which is exceedingly comforting to the Christian who understands it. — R.C. Sproul

Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform. — J.I. Packer

One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it’s the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another. — Neil Gaiman

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] — Horace

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

The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it’s increasingly difficult in our society to find the word «drug» not connected to the word «abuse.» The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture. — Graham Hancock

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry. But that is how I see it. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

She’s read every word I’ve written,» he said. «That’s the truest way to know someone’s heart. — Adam Johnson

If your personal genome sequence was written out longhand, it would be a three-billion-word book. The King James Version of the Bible has 783,137 words, so your genetic code is the equivalent of nearly four thousand Bibles. And if your personal genome sequence were an audio book and you were read at a rate of one double helix per second, it would take nearly a century to put you into words! — Mark Batterson

But now, all are tied up to the ordinary standing rule of the written word and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the will of God concerning us in difficult cases is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules and govern ourselves according to the analogy and proportion they bear towards each other. — John Flavel

The written word is the link between the past and the future. — Lincoln Barnett

In the rare moments I permitted any stillness, I noted a small fluttering at the pit of my belly, a barely perceptible disturbance. The faint whisper of a word would sound in my head: writing. At first I could not say whether it was heartburn or inspiration. The more I listened, the louder the message became: I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself. The gods, we are taught, created humankind in their own image. Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art, or music or through the inventiveness of work or in any number of ways unique to all of us, whether it be cooking, gardening, or the art of social discourse. The point is to honor the urge. To do so is healing for ourselves and for others; not to do so deadens our bodies and our spirits. When I did not write, I suffocated in silence. — Gabor Mate

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word … but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. — James Howe

A Gift for You
I send you …
The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the part of you that sees you with benevolent, loving eyes. You find this letter in a thick envelope with your name on it, and the word YES written boldly above your name.
My Dear,
I am writing this to remind you of your ‘essence beauty.’ This is the part of you that has nothing to do with age, occupation, weight, history, or pain. This is the soft, untouched, indelible you. You can love yourself in this moment, no matter what you have, or haven’t done or been.
See past any masks, devices, or inventions that obscure your essence.
Remember your true purpose, WHICH is only Love.
If you cannot see or feel love, lie down now and cry; it will cleanse your vision and free your heart.
I love you; I am you. — SARK

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out. — Grace Coolidge

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it … I have written because it fulfilled me … I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever. — Stephen King

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 for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn’t right, and there’s no way to cross things out. — Cees Nooteboom

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. — James Lafferty

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I’ve done. — James Sanborn

But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home … — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there is, and always will be, a negative reaction. Those who try escaping life before fate shakes their hand, will forever be stuck on earth, chained to the place they so badly wanted to leave. What a complicated misery. I guarantee you it will be torture to be invisible and ignored by those you love when you can see them — but you are already dead for them to hear you utter another word. Talk about agony, more so, than remaining on this plane and continuing your spiritual cycle as it was written to be lived. — Suzy Kassem

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written. — Edward Albee

That was the problem … with trusting to the written word … We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends.
And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. — Jacqueline Carey

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations. — Chinua Achebe

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you’re being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they’re not exactly right. — Richard Dawkins

When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every word of dialogue is recreated. And I have projected future scenes, just as complete and convincing
scenes that will never take place. I’ve written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content. — John Steinbeck

The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes thought; the formative idea; the initial concept. Then comes the word. Most thoughts ultimately form themselves into words, which are often then written or spoken. This gives added energy to the thought, pushing it out into the world, where it can be noticed by others. Finally, in some cases words are put into action, and you have what you call a result; a physical world manifestation of what all started with a thought. — Neale Donald Walsch

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it. — Stella Benson

If one single invention was necessary to make this larger mechanism operative for constructive tasks as well as for coercion, it was probably the invention of writing. This method of translating speech into graphic record not merely made it possible to transmit impulses and messages throughout the system, but to fix accountability when written orders were not carried out. Accountability and the written word both went along historically with the control of large numbers; and it is no accident that the earliest uses of writing were not to convey ideas, religious or otherwise, but to keep temple records of grain, cattle, pottery, fabricated goods, stored and disbursed. This happened early, for a pre-dynastic Narmer mace in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford records the taking of 120,000 prisoners, 400,000 oxen, and 1,422,000 goats. The arithmetical reckoning was an even greater feat than the capture. — Lewis Mumford

But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. — Kate Seredy

Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your mind off this thing, and begin to look at the words and worry about them… Then your worry goes into them and they set about killing each other. So you keep going as long as you can, then look back and see what you have written. After a bit of practice and after telling yourself you are going to use any old word that comes into your head so long as it seems right, you will surprise yourself. You will read back through what you have written and you will get a shock. You will have captured a spirit, a creature. — Ted Hughes

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions. — Jared Brock

‘Success’ is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

When it comes to casting, I’ve been so lucky. I’ve worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest. — Jason Reitman

I have written about everything at Brekkukot, both indoors and out, which can be given a name; but I have scarcely said a word yet about my grandmother, who was certainly not some useless ornament about the place. On the other hand, if she were likened to the heart of the house, one could say exactly the same about her as one does about healthy hearts in general, that whoever is lucky enough to have such a heart is quite unaware of having a heart at all. — Halldor Laxness

It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written.
A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence.
Only one answer: write carelessly so that nothing that is not green will survive. — William Carlos Williams

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. — John Steinbeck

Plato spoke of the Sisters of Fate on the last 3 pages of his book, «The Republic» when he said: «Then the Sisters of Fate take all of our choices and weave them on their loom into the fabric of destiny. Hear the word of Lachesis, the daughter of Necessity. Mortal souls, behold a new cycle of life and mortality. Your genius will not be allotted to you, but you will choose your genius; and let him who draws the first lot have the first choice, and the life which he chooses shall be his destiny. Virtue is free, and as a man honors’ or dishonors her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser — God is justified» [Quote from Plato’s Republic written 360BCE In the Public Domain] — D.M. Hoover

1 John 1:4 «These things [are written] that your joy may be full.» I can always measure the amount of time I’m spending in the Scriptures by how much joy (not superficial happiness, but deep down abiding joy) I have. When I find a lack of joy in my life, the first thing I check is how much time I’m spending in God’s Word! — Evelyn Christenson

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. — Charles Spurgeon

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word — Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

The written word can be powerful and beautiful — but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can. — Saoirse Ronan

Protestant insistence on the written word in the Bible as the only and sufficient Christian authority for faith and practice relies on an impossible anachronism that artificially projects a modern standard of authority and means of knowledge conveyance retrospectively back into a pre-modern reality that operated by different but reliable and legitimate standards. — Christian Smith

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation’s only physical link to the past. — Ma Jian

She allowed herself to look his way, pretending she was glancing at the clock on the wall above the door. He was meticulously lost in the lesson, taking notes well beyond the scope of what was written on the board.
She was grateful that at least one of them was listening, because she knew he was going to have to explain it all to her later. And he would, without every knowing that he was the reason she hadn’t heard a word of the lesson. — Kimberly Derting

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could. — Bill Wyman

The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes … Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important … Don’t mumble or hesitate. Speak … in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear. — Jonathan D. Spence

You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair. — Franz Kafka

The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater … The word «Art» should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word «Business» gets written there. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I remember my wife in white.’ It just made people weep to hear it … Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn’t matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Galileo wrote that ‘the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it. — Steven Pinker

Sidonie, I know you don’t remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can’t do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here. — Jacqueline Carey

For not even one person to have ever exhibited this interest in writing nor for any to have so satisfied it is bizarre. Saying this all went on in person is simply insufficient to answer the point: if everything was being resolved in person, Paul would never have written a single letter; nor would his congregations have so often written him letters requesting he write to satisfy their questions — which for some reason always concerned only doctrine and rules of conduct, never the far more interesting subject of how the Son of God lived and died. On the other matters Paul was compelled to write tens of thousands of words. If he had to write so much on those issues, how is it possible no one ever asked for or wrote even one word on the more obvious and burning issues of the facts of Jesus’ life and death? — Richard Carrier

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it — or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text?
I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader’s conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need. — Diana Athill

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 be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. — Katherine Paterson

Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way. — John Bunyan

I flipped through Xuanzang’s records almost 1400 years later, and thought that the written word was a fragile truth. His records were meticulous, but there was a vastness left unsaid. There were spools of thought that fell through the cracks and were swallowed by time. I hungered to know if he ever lost sight of is training, if on empty mountain roads loneliness crept into the sides of his mind till he thought he was mad, if in foreign marketplaces he succumbed to desire or greed or temper. — Mishi Saran

Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word. — Ina Catrinescu

Life Lessons 4:4, 7, 10 — «It is written . … It is written . … it is written . … » Jesus responded to each of Satan’s three temptations by appealing to the unchanging Word of God: «It is written!» If we want to successfully overcome temptation, we must know what the Word says. — Charles F. Stanley

I’ve got a black woolen hat and it’s got Pervert written across the front of it. It’s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn’t think. I just put my hat on Clara’s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn’t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby’s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, ‘There’s Satan! There’s Satan out with his kid!’ And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there. — Ewan McGregor

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was «honest.» — Frank Sinatra

Like my peers, I believed that the Bible was God’s Word written down for me, answering all my questions about who God is and what God wants for my life, from the mundane to the ultimate. Or at least I knew that was what I needed to believe. But that was not what I found when I actually opened the Bible up and looked around inside. — Timothy Beal

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written. — John Selden

A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. — John Steinbeck

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video. — Raghav Bahl

Do you like books, Lady Murray?’ Lavinia asked.
‘Just to read,’ Violet said.
‘A mistake. A very big mistake. A poorly bound book disintegrates. Where would our learning be then? We need something permanent, solid. We need to treat words with the respect they are due. Treasure them. Adorn the books that contain these words with leather bindings, illuminate their words with gold. We shouldn’t treat learning lightly.’
‘But I would treat a word scrawled on a scrap of paper with the same respect as one written on an illuminated manuscript. — Alice Thompson

Paul commands: ‘Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.’ From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further. — Saint John Chrysostom

Let me introduce the word ‘hypertext’ to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper. — Ted Nelson

The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over.
‘One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full of short easy ones, Sophie,’ says Sugar. ‘It saves time and paper.’ Seeing that the child is unconvinced, she adds, ‘If books were written in such a way that every person, no matter how young, could understand everything in them, they would be enormously long books. Would you wish to read a book that was a thousand pages long, Sophie?’
Sophie answers without hesitation.
‘I would read a thousand million pages, Miss, if all the words were words I could understand. — Michel Faber

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. — Brian P. Cleary

The written word is everything. — John Drinkwater

The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always … first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it. — Frank Sinatra

Well, I know,» she said. «You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.»
So then I understood. It was war that made her so angry. She didn’t want her babies or anybody else’s babies killed in wars. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies.
So I held up my right hand and I made her a promise: «Mary,» I said, «I don’t think this book of mine will ever be finished. I must have written five thousand pages by now, and thrown them all away. If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won’t be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne.
«I tell you what,» I said, «I’ll call it ‘The Children’s Crusade.'»
She was my friend after that. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is beauty in the written word, — T.J. Klune

Whenever we read a line of the Bible, we must say, Lord Jesus, let me contact You in the divine Word. Lord, You are the living Word. Without You as the living Word I can receive nothing as life from the written Word. Lord, I must contact You. Although You are so mysterious, I praise You that You have given me such a tangible Word. This Word is solid, concrete, and substantial. I thank You for the Word that I can read and pray with. Yet, Lord, what I need is not the letter in black and white, but You, the living Spirit. — Witness Lee

The women have been told it’s written in the Koran that they must do these things,» she said. She could tell them it wasn’t but, as an outsider and a woman, her word meant little against the word of the village sheik. — Geraldine Brooks

Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing. — Christopher Hitchens

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word. — Ander Monson

When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. — Colleen Atwood

#1. As long as people believe in the written word and a good story.. They will believe in me. — Author: Solange Nicole

#2. Becoming a writer is a lifelong journey. It cannot be learned in a day or even a month or a year. We will never fully learn all there is to know about our craft, and even if we did we wouldn’t realize it. We are filled with self-doubt by nature, and many of us will work our entire lives to master the art of the written word without ever recognizing the true talent we possess. Writing is a personal journey of self-discovery and growth, and should be honored as such. If you wonder about my best writing, I would say it came without warning, in moments when I was most vulnerable — with the door shut and my heart split wide open. — Author: Shanda Trofe Write From The Heart

#3. I love the written word so much, I know it’s gonna flow naturally. — Author: Alicia Keys

#4. The written word is so much like evidence — like something that can be used against you later. — Author: Margaret Atwood

#5. how tragic it was that the written word was immortal while people were not, — Author: Katarina Bivald

#6. A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader’s great experience. — Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. The written word is the best thing that mankind has ever done. I’m glad to be a part of it! — Author: Christie Amory

#8. Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting «jazz» and «scat», as in «scat-singing», to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word. — Author: David Lodge

#9. [God] speaks from heaven through the Bible, His written Word. This is why I use the phrase «the Bible says.» I would not have the authority to say what I do in sermons unless it was based upon the Word of God. — Author: Billy Graham

#10. Designers provide ways into — and out of — the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. ( … ) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading. — Author: Ellen Lupton

#11. Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Author: Ted Dekker

#12. 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 that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world. — Author: Sidney Jourard

#13. My education and that of my Black associates were quite different from the education of our white schoolmates. In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drop s’s from plurals and suffixes from past-tense verbs. We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. We learned to slide out of one language and into another without being conscious of the effort. At school, in a given situation, we might respond with «That’s not unusual.» But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, «It be’s like that sometimes. — Author: Maya Angelou

#14. Remember that for all the books we have in print, are as many that have never reached print, have never been written down-even now, in this age of compulsive reverence for the written word, history, even social ethic, are taught by means of stories, and the people who have been conditioned into thinking only in terms of what is written-and unfortunately nearly all the products of our educational system can do no more than this-are missing what is before their eyes. For instance, the real history of Africa is still in the custody of black storytellers and wise men, black historians, medicine men: it is a verbal history, still kept safe from the white man and his predations. Everywhere, if you keep your mind open, you will find the words not written down. So never let the printed page be your master. Above all, you should know that the fact that you have to spend one year, or two years, on one book, or one author means that you are badly taught-you should have been taught to read your way from one sympathy to another, you should be learning to follow you own intuitive feeling about what you need; that is what you should have been developing, not the way to quote from other people. — Author: Doris Lessing

#15. She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. — Author: David Nicholls

#16. I don’t belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that’s why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world. — Author: Sting

#17. The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. — Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. Through the written Word we discover the Living Word — Jesus Christ. — Author: Billy Graham

#19. The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited. — Author: Brennan Manning

#20. Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone. — Author: Douglas Adams

#21. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Author: Henry Adams

#22. Even if the script’s well written there’s something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. — Author: John Travolta

#23. The wisdom that sleeps
In the written word
Is overcome by a despair
That lurks within — Author: Sui Ishida

#24. I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it. — Author: Helen Mirren

#25. And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the relative permanence of paint, words were temporal. You uttered them and they evanesced, but if you wrote them, they remained, though whether the written word was any more truthful than the spoken was a mystery to her. Only paint was honest. — Author: Robin Oliveira

#26. There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustworthiness of God. 4. The presence of God. The classroom is where I am now. This is the place appointed by God for my instruction and sanctification — even here: 1. where it seems God is doing nothing (He is, in fact, at work in unseen ways); 2. where His will seems obscure or frightening (He will surely give me peace at last); 3. where He isn’t doing what I want Him to (He is doing something better — preparing bread for me when what I asked was in actual fact a stone; or perhaps, He is doing the very thing I prayed for, but in a way incomprehensible to me); 4. where He is most absent (yes, even there His promise holds: I will never leave you or forsake you. My faith must size that written word regardless of the enemy’s taunt, «You’ve been abandoned.»). — Author: Elisabeth Elliot

#27. God was there when it happened. We were not there … Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word. — Author: Stephen Jay Gould

#28. As with … even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life. — Author: Bruce Berger

#29. The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. — Author: Elisabeth Elliot

#30. To me, there’s no better way to stir the soul than through the power of the written word. — Author: Jake Parent

#31. The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies. — Author: Ibrahim Babangida

#32. I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners. — Author: Robert Treat Paine

#33. Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Author: Italo Calvino

#34. That was the problem … with trusting to the written word … We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends.
And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. — Author: Jacqueline Carey

#35. Prophets do not bring new truth. Revelation is simply a revealing of what is already true and bringing it to bear upon our heart and soul. Revelation is based upon insight into the written Word of God, not into visions and dreams and prophecies. These other things are simply tools for expressing the Word, they are not the Word; no more than the water hose is water, it simply delivers the water. — Author: Chip Brogden

#36. Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don’t get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable … and, therefore, the inherently desirable. — Author: Belle De Jour

#37. The written word is everything. — Author: John Drinkwater

#38. A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;
not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. — Author: Henry David Thoreau

#39. I am exploiting the written word with the utmost ease. This alarms me, for I am afraid of losing my sense of order and of plunging into an abyss resounding with cries and shrieks: The Hell of human freedom. But I shall continue — Author: Clarice Lispector

#40. I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. — Author: Rabih Alameddine

#41. I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word. — Author: Sven Birkerts

#42. Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word. — Author: Cathryn Louis

#43. What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man? — Author: Delores Phillips

#44. My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. — Author: Joseph Conrad

#45. The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Author: Walter Moers

#46. The most difficult thing to do after a life well lived is to sit down and type it all out. To start with, your fingers are old and gnarled. You can see the skin crinkled up like paper, the knobby knuckles, the veins standing up blue and aggressive and you wonder, when did your hands change, when did they stop being young and firm and definite, when did the hesitancy creep in, when did the trembling begin. Your mind sieves through memories as thick as molasses and as bitterly sweet. The words trip on your tongue but hesitate to make their way onto the page because you debate endlessly in your head about which of them you should put down in print, terrified of the permanency of the written word. Memories are the kind of elusiveness that shift, change form, and remodel themselves by the second. It is a challenge to wrestle with them, to get them to agree to be analysed, to be put down in words and encapsulated into sentences, moulded into paragraphs. As long as they are shifting, morphing into different things as the moment suits them, they aren’t bound by one person’s recollection of how things were, of how they happened. These are my memories.
And this was my life. And so I try to write this. I am already half way through what I am trying to put down. I have no idea who would want to read the story of my life. But I write it out, more for myself, than for anyone else who would care to read. — Author: Kiran Manral

#47. Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages. — Author: Steven Heller

#48. For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it’s the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short. Then the Readers die one by one and the Work continues on alone, although a new Criticism and new Readers gradually fall into step with it along its path. Then Criticism dies again and the Readers die again and the Work passes over a trail of bones on its journey toward solitude. To come near the work, to sail in her wake, is a sign of certain death, but new Criticism and new Readers approach her tirelessly and relentlessly and are devoured by time and speed. Finally the Work journeys irremediably alone in the Great Vastness. And one day the Work dies, as all things must die and come to an end: the Sun and the Earth and the Solar System and the Galaxy and the farthest reaches of man’s memory. Everything that begins as comedy ends in tragedy. — Author: Roberto Bolano

#49. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water. — Author: Olivia Laing

#50. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. — Author: John Steinbeck

#51. The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform. — Author: J.I. Packer

#52. I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you’re being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they’re not exactly right. — Author: Richard Dawkins

#53. 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 honestly about their lives by our ancestors? — Author: Randy Wayne White

#54. People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. — Author: Diane Setterfield

#55. What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. — Author: Megan Whalen Turner

#56. Whenever we read a line of the Bible, we must say, Lord Jesus, let me contact You in the divine Word. Lord, You are the living Word. Without You as the living Word I can receive nothing as life from the written Word. Lord, I must contact You. Although You are so mysterious, I praise You that You have given me such a tangible Word. This Word is solid, concrete, and substantial. I thank You for the Word that I can read and pray with. Yet, Lord, what I need is not the letter in black and white, but You, the living Spirit. — Author: Witness Lee

#57. The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word. — Author: John Newton

#58. I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn’t really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal. — Author: Saoirse Ronan

#59. I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. — Author: Adolf Hitler

#60. The great storehouse of truth is the word of God — the written word, the book of nature, and the book of experience in God’s dealing with human life. Here are the treasures from which Christ’s workers are to draw. In the search after truth they are to depend upon God, not upon human intelligences, the great men whose wisdom is foolishness with God. Through His own appointed channels the Lord will impart a knowledge of Himself to every seeker. — Author: Ellen G. White

#61. A few letter-writers had taken refuge in doorways, their old voiceprinters wrapped in sheets of clear plastic, evidence that the written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. — Author: William Gibson

#62. [John Clare’s] father was a casual farm labourer, his family never more than a few days’ wages from the poorhouse. Clare himself, from early childhood, scraped a living in the fields. He was schooled capriciously, and only until the age of 12, but from his first bare contact fell wildly in love with the written word. His early poems are remarkable not only for the way in which everything he sees flares into life, but also for his ability to pour his mingled thoughts and observations on to the page as they occur, allowing you, as perhaps no other poet has done, to watch the world from inside his head. Read The Nightingale’s Nest, one of the finest poems in the English language, and you will see what I mean.
(«John Clare, poet of the environmental crisis 200 years ago» in The Guardian.) — Author: George Monbiot

#63. The written word is far more powerful than simply a reminder: it recreates the past in the present, and gives us, not the familiar remembered thing, but the glittering intensity of the summoned-up hallucination. — Author: Northrop Frye

#64. Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion. — Author: John Churchill, 1st Duke Of Marlborough

#65. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express
verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner
the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. — Author: Andre Breton

#66. There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply … the person who wants to read what I have written. — Author: Will Self

#67. Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word.
When I read: I want to feel…
When I write: I want you to feel…
©2014 Suzanne Steele — Author: Suzanne Steele

#68. With words, you can’t pull your punches, but you can change the context. — Author: Anthony T. Hincks

#69. Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Author: Frank Bough

#70. So, what do you go for in a girl?»
He crows, lifting a lager to his lips
Gestures where his mate sits
Downs his glass
«He prefers tits I prefer ass. What do you go for in a girl?»
I don’t feel comfortable
The air left the room a long time ago
All eyes are on me
Well, if you must know I want a girl who reads
Yeah. Reads.
I’m not trying to call you a chauvinist
Cos I know you’re not alone in this but…
I want a girl who reads
Who needs the written word & uses the added vocabulary
She gleans from novels and poetry
To hold lively conversation In a range of social situations
I want a girl who reads
Who’s heart bleeds at the words of Graham Greene Or even Heat magazine
Who’ll tie back her hair while reading Jane Eyre
And goes cover to cover with each water stones three for two offer but
I want a girl who doesn’t stop there
I want a girl who reads
Who feeds her addiction for fiction
With unusual poems and plays
That she hunts out in crooked bookshops for days and days and days
She’ll sit addicted at breakfast, soaking up the back of the cornflakes box
And the information she gets from what she reads makes her a total fox
Cos she’s interesting & unique & her theories make me go weak at the knees
I want a girl who reads
A girl who’s eyes will analyze
The menu over dinner
Who’ll use what she learn — Author: Mark Grist

#71. I guess you can call me «old fashioned». I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don’t stick together when I’m enraptured in a story that I can’t wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner. — Author: Felicia Johnson

#72. You won’t forget that,» Claire assured her.
«I like things written down,» Tabitha mumbled. «Then you’ve got them for good. — Author: Margaret Mahy

#73. The fixation of the theater in one language
written words, music, lights, noises
betokens its imminent ruin. — Author: Antonin Artaud

#74. Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension. Sometimes the city speaks to the page, or the page seems to open up to people passing by. An outdoor reader shares the pulse of a timeless urban conversation between the world and the written word. — Author: Nina Bernstein

#75. Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It’s all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this. — Author: Neil Gaiman

#76. The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. — Author: John Steinbeck

#77. Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you! — Author: K. Lamb

#78. Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). — Author: Reid A. Ashbaucher

#79. It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them. — Author: C.F. Heller

#80. 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 tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word. — Author: Steven Spielberg

#81. Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord’s Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament. — Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer

#82. The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses — the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing — & the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else. — Author: Annie Dillard

#83. Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell .Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm. — Author: David Nicholls

#84. 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 truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing. — Author: Henning Mankell

#85. Sometimes what-if fantasies are useful. Imagine that the entirety of Western civilisation’s coding for computer systems or prints of all films ever made or all copies of Shakespeare and the Bible and the Qur’an were encrypted and held on one tablet device. And if that tablet was lost, stolen, burnt or corrupted, then our knowledge, use and understanding of that content, those words and ideas, would be gone for ever – only, perhaps, lingering in the minds of a very few men of memory whose job it had been to keep ideas alive. This little thought-experiment can help us to comprehend the totemic power of manuscripts. This is the great weight of responsibility for the past, the present and the future that the manuscripts of Constantinople carried. Much of our global cultural heritage – philosophies, dramas, epic poems – survive only because they were preserved in the city’s libraries and scriptoria. Just as Alexandria and Pergamon too had amassed vast libraries, Constantinople understood that a physical accumulation of knowledge worked as a lode-stone – drawing in respect, talent and sheer awe. These texts contained both the possibilities and the fact of empire and had a quasi-magical status. This was a time when the written word was considered so potent – and so precious – that documents were thought to be objects with spiritual significance. (…)

It was in Constantinople that the book review was invented. Scholars seem to have had access to books within a proto-lendi — Author: Bettany Hughes

#86. Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives. — Author: Lynn M. Dixon

#87. There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. — Author: Malala Yousafzai

#88. [M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts. — Author: Samuel Rutherford

#89. 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 part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please! — Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer

#90. Vulnerability has a strength of its own. — Author: William Zinsser

#91. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It’s the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it’s only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse. — Author: Jesse Kellerman

#92. Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver. — Author: Devdutt Pattanaik

#93. All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could. — Author: Bill Wyman

#94. «So we’d get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we’d read poetry to each other.» And my grandfather told me all the stories. I mean, their way of communicating … They didn’t have telephones, either, so they communicated with the written word. And I really … That’s how old [Bill] Clinton has become to me [ speaking of how he met Hillary Clinton]. — Author: Rush Limbaugh

#95. The written word held a power she almost revered: to be able to write so as to influence the hearts and minds of other readers seemed nothing short of a miracle. — Author: Patti Callahan Henry

#96. 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 word. — Author: Peter Drucker

#97. My task is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. That
and no more, and it is everything. — Author: Joseph Conrad

#98. The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning! — Author: Hope Mirrlees

#99. The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. — Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#100. When you are mute, you become a good listener — it’s all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. — Author: James Earl Jones

#101. My dear Daniela, I cannot defy My written Word. Do not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever. You are my beloved daughter. I will not place your tender heart into the hands of a man who has not surrendered his life to Me. Besides, he has no means to care for you. Have I not written even in days of old, that a man is to care for his wife? That is not your role. It is his. Pray for him.» Yahweh’s gentle voice soothed Daniela’s soul. — Author: J. Nell Brown

#102. -to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant’s monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries! — Author: Richard Flanagan

#103. I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word. — Author: Ander Monson

#104. The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. — Author: William Gibson

#105. The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors. — Author: Neil Postman

#106. Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn’t imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me didn’t share my enthusiasm for the written word. Some might sit for a good story while told, but if a book had no pictures they showed scant interest. — Author: Keith Donohue

#107. What (Ada asks) are eyes anyway? Two holes in the mask of life. What (she asks) would they mean to a creature from another corpuscle or milk bubble whose organ of sight was (say) an internal parasite resembling the written word «deified»? What, indeed, would a pair of beautiful (human, lemurian, owlish) eyes mean to anybody if found lying on the seat of a taxi? — Author: Vladimir Nabokov

#108. Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. — Author: David Nicholls

#109. Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. ‪Accept and respect‬ people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare the flint! — Author: Deeba Salim Irfan

#110. The written word isn’t necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds — Author: Wes Moore

#111. Humans are conversant in many media (music, dance, painting), but all of them are analog except for the written word, which is naturally expressed in digital form (i.e. it is a series of discrete symbols — every letter in every book is a member of a certain character set, every «a» is the same as every other «a,» and so on). As any communications engineer can tell you, digital signals are much better to work with than analog ones because they are easily copied, transmitted, and error-checked. Unlike analog signals, they are not doomed to degradation over time and distance. That — Author: Neal Stephenson

#112. 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. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books. — Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

#113. Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper’s body with their starving minds. — Author: Munia Khan

#114. Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order. — Author: Bertrand Russell

#115. The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor’s mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. — Author: Gene Barry

#116. If God ever commands the spirit of wisdom to depart from me, well, I reckon that I’ll never be able to compose the written word again. Not in music, and not in literature. If there is a blank page before me, it wouldn’t matter if my right hand held a thousand dollar ink pen from the House of Montblanc, or an ink pen branded Paper Mate, not one word would be jotted from the ink of either or, and the page would remain blank. («Primary Blog: The Final Post at the Boutique Domain,» 2015) — Author: Cat Ellington

#117. I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own. — Author: Dexter Palmer

#118. Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry. But that is how I see it. — Author: Walter M. Miller Jr.

#119. The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood. — Author: Ronnell D. Porter

#120. 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, leaving an indelible image. — Author: Bianca Jagger

#121. I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer’s character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I — Author: Louis Auchincloss

#122. 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 along, it ‘s disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice. — Author: Terence Fisher

#123. The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I — Author: Madeleine L’Engle

#124. Logic might be imagined to exist independent of writing — syllogisms can be spoken as well as written — but it did not. Speech is too fleeting to allow for analysis. Logic descended from the written word, in Greece as well as India and China, where it developed independently. Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience. Logic takes its form in chains: sequences whose members connect one to another. Conclusions follow from premises. These require a degree of constancy. They have no power unless people can examine and evaluate them. In contrast, an oral narrative proceeds by accretion, the words passing by in a line of parade past the viewing stand, briefly present and then gone, interacting with one another via memory and association. — Author: James Gleick

#125. When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast … The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to accident and time. Purity is on the edge of evil, they say. — Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#126. 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, and the spoken word winds through the ear’s labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve’s realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world’s image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully. — Author: Dan Beachy-Quick

#127. But now, all are tied up to the ordinary standing rule of the written word and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the will of God concerning us in difficult cases is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules and govern ourselves according to the analogy and proportion they bear towards each other. — Author: John Flavel

#128. I don’t think you can write — at least not well — if you don’t love stories, love the written word. — Author: Nora Roberts

#129. Whenever there’s an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it’s a positive thing. — Author: Hill Harper

#130. Telekinesis is moving things with your mind.
I move people with my words. — Author: Anthony T. Hincks

#131. One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. — Author: Hart Crane

#132. When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman’s secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you’ve ever read. What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever? — Author: Audrey Niffenegger

#133. There’s another quote on the act of writing letters, have a look: Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have changed; words are lost with ever greater ease; you can see them float on the waters of history; sink, come up again, mixed in by the current with the water hyacinths. — Author: Ricardo Piglia

#134. No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. — Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

#135. I’m a poetry-skipper myself. I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country — make it any other two persons. This doesn’t mean that I hate poetry. I don’t feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose. — Author: Will Cuppy

#136. On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: «The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.»

I’ve always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they’re shared experiences, but books aren’t like that. The relationship between a writer and a reader is utterly unique to those two individuals. The world that forms in your head as you read a book will be slightly different to that experienced by every other reader. Anywhere. Ever. Reading is very personal, a communication from one mind to another, something which can’t be exactly copied, or replicated, or directly shared.

If I read the work of, say, one of the great Victorian novelists, it’s like a gift from the past, a momentary connection to another’s thoughts. Their ideas are down on paper, to be picked up by me, over a century later. Writers can speak individually to readers across a year, or ten years, or a thousand.

That’s why I love books. — Author: Simon Cheshire

#137. The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we’re reading, we’re thinking. It’s a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we’re looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there’s not as much reflective time. And it’s the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me. — Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#138. I flipped through Xuanzang’s records almost 1400 years later, and thought that the written word was a fragile truth. His records were meticulous, but there was a vastness left unsaid. There were spools of thought that fell through the cracks and were swallowed by time. I hungered to know if he ever lost sight of is training, if on empty mountain roads loneliness crept into the sides of his mind till he thought he was mad, if in foreign marketplaces he succumbed to desire or greed or temper. — Author: Mishi Saran

#139. The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second. — Author: Karen Joy Fowler

#140. In the 1950s, there was a sense that literature and writing had a burning importance — that you could write a book or paint a painting and change the world. That kind of faith seems to be lacking now. Literature has been pushed toward the sidelines of [modern day] culture. There isn’t that sense of centrality or permanence to the written word — everything seems more disposable. — Author: Joyce Johnson

#141. But unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well. — Author: Nicholas Sparks

#142. Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. — Author: Adora Svitak

#143. Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way. — Author: Orville Prescott

#144. A library is never — for lovers of the written word — simply a place for conserving or storing books but rather a sort of living creature with a personality and even moods which we should understand and learn to live with. — Author: Francisco Marquez Villanueva

#145. And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure? — Author: Siri Hustvedt

#146. The written word may be man’s greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Author: Abraham Lincoln

#147. Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. — Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates

#148. A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction — Author: Jose Saramago

#149. However much we admire the orator’s occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds. — Author: Henry David Thoreau

#150. The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. — Author: James Lafferty

#151. When you come to rely on the written word, it’s time to light the fire with it. — Author: K.J. Parker

#152. There is beauty in the written word, — Author: T.J. Klune

#153. I wonder if Socrates would have appreciated the flagrant irony: It’s only because his pupils Plato and Xenophon put his disdain for the written word into written words that we have any knowledge of it today — Author: Joshua Foer

#154. If loving the written word is wrong … I don’t want to be right! — Author: Junnita Jackson

#155. While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can — through the written word — lift someone’s burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone. — Author: Regina Brett

#156. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books. — Author: Idries Shah

#157. After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not — or were not permitted to — read, were given sermons by the few who could. — Author: Theodore Bikel

#158. The reader’s ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can’t yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing’s modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. — Author: Annie Dillard

#159. Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper … The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies. — Author: Jonathan Franzen

#160. I’ve always had a fondness for language … English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word … and the sung word. — Author: Joel Plaskett

#161. It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] — Author: Horace

#162. How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words. — Author: Cornelia Funke

#163. Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word. — Author: Elie Wiesel

#164. I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in early from harvesting the wheat, sitting down in all his dirt to read the precious missive. I sat beside him, fresh from my bath. And so handsome did my husband look, long legs sprawled in Dungaree trousers and frowning over my father’s spiky hand, that I could not resist reaching out to smooth away the frown. He caught my hand to his lips, still reading, and then chancing to look up, and reading my face more swiftly than he would ever read the written word, pulled me onto his lap. — Author: Jennifer Paynter

#165. Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs — and ultimately dead ends. They are responses to keep us locked in the role of victim. Empowerment is encapsulated in the written word. Writing about trauma is more than simply documenting experience — it’s about illuminating life on earth. It’s about transforming tragedy into art, and hoping that somehow that piece of art may help someone else who’s gone through something unbearable and who doesn’t yet see that there is truly a light at the end of the tunnel. . . . It’s about transcendence. It’s about where we go from here.» Tracy Strauss — Author: Rossandra White

#166. To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them, in their traditional robes and the resting camels by their campfire, intently regarding writing with such immense respect … that illiteracy meant subsistence, while literacy meant human advancement, the base on which higher achievements and accomplishments of great civilizations could be built. — Author: T.K. Naliaka

#167. The alphabet is the greatest invention of humankind, and even has a spark of the divine: it gave us the written word, which gave us the means to communicate with both the past and the future. — Author: Mary Norris

#168. Different social media networks are used for different communication to the extent that the written word still prevails over visuals. However, in the future, it will be other way around. — Author: Maxim Behar

#169. The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time. — Author: Greg Weisman

#170. The library serves as a gathering place for friends who
share the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everyday
life, doing it by losing themselves in the written word. — Author: Kristen Ashley

#171. I believe that anyone who doesn’t read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do — Author: Edward Bunker

#172. When it comes to casting, I’ve been so lucky. I’ve worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest. — Author: Jason Reitman

#173. Explanations are so much easier when one has time to construct them properly. — Author: Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

#174. Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The blacks were taking their part in the destruction of European feudalism begun by the French Revolution, and liberty and equality, the slogans of the revolution, meant far more to them than to any Frenchman. That was why in the hour of danger Toussaint, uninstructed as he was, could find the language and accent of Diderot, Rousseau, and Raynal, of Mirabeau, Robespierre and Danton. And in one respect he excelled them all. For even these masters of the spoken and written word, owing to the class complications of their society, too often had to pause, to hesitate, to qualify. Toussaint could defend the freedom of the blacks without reservation, and this gave to his declaration a strength and a single-mindedness rare in the great documents of the time. The French bourgeoisie could not understand it. Rivers of blood were to flow before they understood that elevated as was his tone Toussaint had written neither bombast nor rhetoric but the simple and sober truth. — Author: C.L.R. James

#175. Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word. — Author: Louise Penny

#176. How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it — or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text?
I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader’s conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need. — Author: Diana Athill

#177. Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word. Socrates thought that the book would do terrible things to our memories. — Author: Clay A. Johnson

#178. Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way. — Author: Orville Prescott

#179. So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass. — Author: Tom Robbins

#180. I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have never failed my friends in their hour of peril. Yet insignificant though these powers may seem to be, I fully realize from what source I draw all that is highest in them. Had I not persuaded myself from my youth up, thanks to the moral lessons derived from a wide reading, that nothing is to be greatly sought after in this life save glory and honour, and that in their quest all bodily pains and all dangers of death or exile should be lightly accounted, I should never have borne for the safety of you all the burnt of many a bitter encounter, or bared my breast to the daily onsets of abandoned persons. All literature, all philosophy, all history, abounds with incentives to noble action, incentives which would be buried in black darkness were the light of the written word not flashed upon them. — Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#181. I was even starting to relax — a little — until he took me to his parents’ house for dinner. I’ve never met two people more in need of a divorce. They bickered and fought all evening. Royce said that’s how they express their love. I don’t believe him. I mean, please. You tell me if you feel the love from this conversation (written word for word as I remember it):
Linda: Elliot, be a dear and get me another drink.
Elliot: Get it yourself.
Linda: Get up and fix me a drink, you lazy man.
Elliot: Woman, don’t push me on this. I’ve finally gotten comfortable.
Linda: (sugary sweet smile) I’ll push you only when you’re standing on a bridge.
Elliot: If I were standing on a bridge and saw you coming, you wouldn’t have to push me. I’d
jump.
See? Does that sound «loving» to you? — Author: Gena Showalter

#182. Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature — Author: Nadine Gordimer

#183. He doesn’t know what the world is like today. The thought that his own conception of the world was so different from his father’s was like a protecting wall around his entire being. When his father went out into the street he had only the mosque, the Koran, the other old men in his mind. It was the immutable world of law, the written word, unchanging beneficence, but it was in some way wrinkled and dried up. Whereas when Amar stepped out the door there was the whole vast earth waiting, the live mysterious earth, that belonged to him in a way it could belong to no one else, and where anything at all might happen. — Author: Paul Bowles

#184. Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which a narrator/author arranges known functions of a tale aesthetically and ideologically to induce wonder and then transmits the tale as a whole according to customary usage of a society in a given historical period. The first stage for the literary fairy tale involved a kind of class and perhaps even gender appropriation. The voices of the nonliterate tellers were submerged, and since women in most cases were not allowed to be scribes, the tales were scripted according to male dictates or fantasies, even though they may have been told by women. Put crudely, it could be said that the literary appropriation of the oral wonder tales served the hegemonic interests of males within the upper classes of particular communities and societies, and to a great extent this is true. However, such a statement must be qualified, for the writing down of the tales also preserved a great deal of the value system of those deprived of power. And the more the literary fairy tale was cultivated and developed, the more it became individualized and varied by intellectuals and artists, who often sympathized with those society marginalized or were marginalized themselves. The literary fairy tale allowed for new possibilities of subversion in the written word and in print, and therefore it was always looked upon with misgivings by the governing authorities in the civilization process — Author: Jack D. Zipes

#185. Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. — Author: Teresa Mummert

#186. I don’t think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it’s gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing. — Author: Anita Loos

#187. Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know, sometimes things we don’t want to know. — Author: Amy Gail Hansen

#188. Hello Everyone! My name is Dan Brown and in the course of writing my first novel, some other guy, claiming to be me, had the chutzpah to steal my name and publish a book about some code that apparently became quite popular, so much so in fact that copies of it, as well as subsequent novels by the same guy, now accost me every time I visit a brick & mortar or online bookstore these days. Long story short, when I published my first novel (Roll Over, Hitler!) this past month, I decided to use my full name – Daniel Bruce Brown – which would have pleased my parents to no end had they still been alive, but basically makes me unknown to anyone who knows me by Dan Brown, which has to be, I don’t know, at least ten or fifteen people. So, anyway, here I am, hoping to be «discovered» and, in the meantime, hoping to make some new friends among folks who love the written word as much as I do. — Author: Daniel Bruce Brown

#189. It hurts, though. It hurts like hell. Even in the knowledge that our punctuation has arrived at its present state by a series of accidents; even in the knowledge that there are at least seventeen rules for the comma, some of which are beyond explanation by top grammarians — it is a matter for despair to see punctuation chucked out as worthless by people who don’t know the difference between who’s and whose and whose bloody automatic ‘grammar checker’ can’t tell the difference either. And despair was the initial impetus for this book. I saw a sign for ‘Book’s’ with an apostrophe in it, and something deep inside me snapped; snapped with that melancholy sound you hear in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, like a far-off cable breaking in a mine-shaft. I know that language moves on. It has to. Not once have I ever stopped to feel sorry for those Egyptian hieroglyph artists tossed on the scrapheap during a former linguistic transition (‘Birds’ heads in profile, mate? You having a laugh?’). But I can’t help feeling that our punctuation system, which has served the written word with grace and ingenuity for centuries, must not be allowed to disappear without a fight. — Author: Lynne Truss

#190. He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted — that word was ‘eternity’, and the Snow Queen had said, «If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates.» But he could not find it out. — Author: Hans Christian Andersen

#191. I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. — Author: Albert Einstein

#192. When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. — Author: Colleen Atwood

#193. The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#194. Amy might not have had the most exciting life over the past few years, up here in her room, but she must have been fighting death to the very end. Sara could understand why she had been in denial or so long. It must have been a frightening realization: so many books she would never get to pick up, so many stories that would happen without her, so many authors she would never get to discover.

That night, Sara sat in Amy’s library for hours, thinking about how tragic it was that the written word was immortal while people were not, and grieving for her, the woman she had never met. — Author: Katarina Bivald

#195. By AD 800, so redeemed was Arabic from the contempt in which it had once been held that its sound had come to rank as the very music of power, and its cursives as things of pure beauty, refined to a rare and exquisite perfection by the art of its calligraphers.

Among the Arabs, the written word was on the verge of becoming a mania. One scholar, when he died in 822, left behind him a library that filled a whole six hundred trunks. — Author: Tom Holland

#196. Lewis Carroll and J. M. Barrie were very strange men, and such is the nature of the written word that their personal strangeness shines straight through all the layers of Disneyfication like X-rays through a wall. Probably — Author: Neal Stephenson

#197. God will never — never — lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible. — Author: Billy Graham

#198. Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic. — Author: George R R Martin

#199. Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That’s how shows build a critical mass on cable. — Author: Walton Goggins

#200. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating. — Author: Lawrence Hill

#201. The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. — Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#202. Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments. — Author: Stanley Baldwin

#203. To most readers the word ‘fiction’ is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author’s part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it. — Author: Louis Auchincloss

#204. Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who’s a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means. — Author: Alanis Morissette

#205. I believe that dance communicates man’s deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. — Author: Ted Shawn

#206. People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had,» she said quietly, staring into the embers. «They don’t know what it was like, not being in a camp. — Author: Nevil Shute

#207. No, this is no beginning.
Then an end?
End is a gloomy word. — Author: Robert Frost

#208. Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it. If one woman was a genius, it was proof that it was possible for the rest of them. — Author: Heather O’Neill

#209. A true plague of a girl. And yet a queen in every sense of the word. — Author: Renee Ahdieh

#210. I told you. It was interesting’ [Annabel]
‘Interesting,’ he [Owen] said, ‘is not a word.’
‘Since when? — Author: Sarah Dessen

#211. The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don’t require an acetylene torch. — Author: Jean Giraudoux

#212. Look at the word responsibility-«response-ability»-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. — Author: Stephen Covey

#213. If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. — Author: Toni Morrison

#214. Read the books which they [the ancients] have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them» — St Bernardino of Siena (d. 1444) — Author: Bernardino Of Siena

#215. Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. — Author: Julianna Margulies

#216. Thucydides wrote of people who made rules and followed them. Going by rule they killed entire classes of enemies without exception. Most of those who died felt, I am sure, that a terrible mistake was being made, that, whatever the rule was, it could not be meant for them. ‘I—!’: that was their last word as their throats were cut. A word of protest: I, the exception.

«Were they exceptions? The truth is, given time to speak, we would all claim to be exceptions. For each of us there is a case to be made. We all deserve the benefit of the doubt.

«But there are times when there is no time for all that close listening, all those exceptions, all that mercy. There is no time, so we fall back on the rule. And that is a great pity, the greatest pity. That is what you could have learned from Thucydides. It is a great pity when we find ourselves entering upon times like those. We should enter upon them with a sinking heart. They are by no means to be welcomed. — Author: J.M. Coetzee

#217. But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. — Author: Veronica Roth

#218. There was a time when the word «friend» meant something deeper, not the cheap thing it has become because of Facebook. — Author: Catherine Torres

#219. After listening to everyone rumble with both their pain and their privilege, the white woman who wrote the «you don’t know me» note said, «I get it, but I can’t spend my life focusing on the negative things — especially what the black and Hispanic students are talking about. It’s too hard. Too painful.» And before anyone could say a word, she had covered her face with her hands and started to cry. In an instant, we were all in that marshy, dark delta with her. She wiped her face and said, «Oh my God. I get it: I can choose to be bothered when it suits me. I don’t have to live this every day.» I chose to use my social work — Author: Brene Brown

#220. If, after having been in someone’s presence, you feel like you’ve lost a quart of plasma — avoid that presence. No one likes to hear the word «vampire» used around here… it’s kind of bad for our public image. — Author: William S. Burroughs

#221. refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion. — Author: Various

#222. I love the word ‘fashion.’ That’s why I’m using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequently a show of sexism
as if something that’s traditionally a concern of women isn’t valid as a field of academic inquiry. When the Parsons fashion department was founded in 1906, it was called ‘costume design,’ because fashion was then a verb: to fashion. But the word ‘fashion’ has evolved to mean something much more profound, and those who resist it seem to me to be on the wrong side of history. — Author: Tim Gunn

#223. The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when ‘the Word became flesh and dwelt among us’ (Jn. 1:14). — Author: Saint Augustine

#224. I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or enhanced by one’s writing ability — what I call word work. My goal from then on was to make sure my writing skills were up to speed with my imagination. — Author: Marvin Brown

#225. What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can’t we? Let’s remember to thank Him. — Author: Greg Laurie

#226. Two mornings later, entering her daughter’s room, Kate was struck by the flatness of the bed, and then by the sight of a folded paper laid dead centre of the untenanted pillow. Unfolded, it proved to be a witty and delightfully-written apology from her daughter for upsetting the household, coupled with the information that, having some business of vital importance to transact north of the Border in the immediate future, she had taken the liberty of leaving for a few days without permission, as she just knew that Kate would make a fuss and stop her. She would be back directly with some heather, and Kate was not to worry and not to speak to any strange men. She had, Philippa concluded, taken Cheese-wame Henderson with her: thus becoming the only known fugitive to persuade her bodyguard to run away, too. It was a typical Somerville letter, and in other circumstances Kate no doubt would have been charmed by the spelling alone. As it was, she roused the neighbourhood for ten miles around, and there was no able-bodied Englishman within reach of Flaw Valleys who slept in his own bed that night or the next. — Author: Dorothy Dunnett

#227. The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can’t do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious. — Author: Per Petterson

#228. Further and further afield he travelled. Taking ship, he sailed to a hot and passionate country where gypsy women dressed in scarlet, and their dark skin sweated as they danced tarantellas under a tambourine moon. — Author: Geraldine McCaughrean

#229. city’s anthem, «I Left My Heart in San Francisco,» was written in 1954 by two gay lovers who were pining for «the city by the bay» after moving to Brooklyn Heights. — Author: David Talbot

#230. The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches. — Author: Nizar Qabbani

#231. At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future. — Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans

#232. People can’t hear anything except when it’s nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don’t mean it, or don’t know anything anyway, or it’s not true, or it’s against religion, or it’s not what they are used to reading in the newspapers … — Author: Katherine Anne Porter

#233. My father referred to it as «the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers.» He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day. — Author: Patrick Rothfuss

#234. My Dear Lucy,
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be
your affectionate Godfather, — Author: C.S. Lewis

#235. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Author: Hippocrates

#236. Because you are the product of an educational system which recycles historical facts written by the victors whose perceptions are often skewed and self-serving. — Author: Ednah Walters

She’s read every word I’ve written,» he said. «That’s the truest way to know someone’s heart. — Adam Johnson

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. — Joseph Conrad

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 word. — Peter Drucker

Can’t is the worst word that’s written or spoken. — Edgar A. Guest