Gloria Steinem Quotes

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

If you can talk, you can write.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I don't speak a lot of English, of course, but I do try to express myself, and usually, I can get across to people what I am trying to say.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style