Written Word Quotes - Page 7

• The written word is everything.

  John Drinkwater

  Written

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Goes On, Spirit, Problem

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• Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - 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.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Psychics, Moral

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  Randy Wayne White

  Anchors, Three, Four

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• A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mean, Political, Social

  New York Times, October 22, 1964.

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Important, News

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• 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.

  Regina Brett

  Elderly, Champion, Causes

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• Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

  Bruce Willis

  Dinosaurs, Way, Reviews

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• The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

  Antonin Artaud

  Light, Noise, Ruins

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.12, Grove Press

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• 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.

  Ha Jin

  Country, Powerful, Character

  "Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202". Interview with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

  May Sarton

  Travel, Reality, Cities

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.114, Open Road Media

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

  David LaChapelle

  Strong, Believe, Photographer

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• 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

  Spoken Word, Recalls, Publish

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• I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Letters, Notes, Written

  "Sandra Bullock Talks The Lake House". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. June 13, 2006.

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mind, Different, Way

  "Neil Gaiman Brings A Multimedia Extravaganza To Carnegie Hall". kunr.org. June 25, 2014.

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• "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].

  Rush Limbaugh

  Horse, Mean, Tree

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

  Anna Quindlen

  Teacher, Reinforcement, Changed

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Media, Hitchhiking, Want

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

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• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Sound

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• 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.

  Adora Svitak

  Voice, Age, World

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• 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.

  Francis Chan

  Technology, Community, Say Anything

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.16, David C Cook

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• Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

  Bianca Jagger

  Photography, Leaving, Doe

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