Written Words Quotes

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Of course, I go into the studio with all the words written down.

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

I got to write most of everything I said.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

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

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

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

Ink is the transcript of thought.