Written Word Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Terence Fisher

  Ideas, Choices, Important

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• The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

  James Lafferty

  Stories, Half, Half The Story

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• 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.

  Joel Plaskett

  Book, Use, Language

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

  Tim Gunn

  Couple, Book, Library

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Opposites, Routine

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• 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.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

  Grover Cleveland

  Men, Honor, Citizens

  "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897". Book by James D. Richardson, 1896-1899.

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Clouds, Fleeting

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

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• 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.

  Orville Prescott

  Children, Book, World

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• The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

  John Newton

  Jesus, Giving, Advice

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• Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

  John Wimber

  Littles, Sometimes, Written

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• Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

  John Travolta

  Scripts, Sometimes, Wells

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

  Terri Windling

  Stronger, Film, Written

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me 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

  Real, Book, Fate

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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• The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

  William Gibson

  Country, Automation, Prestige

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.78, Penguin

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• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Sometimes, Wonder

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• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  Laura Linney

  Disability, Learning Disability, Written

  "Laura Linney: 'Comedy is a way to survive'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Years, Age

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• 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

  Beautiful, Powerful, Way

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• 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

  Lucky, Looks, Actors

  "Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 05, 2011.

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• I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

  Mike Mills

  Believe, Actors, Way

  "SXSW: The Importance Of Dogs To The Writing Process & More We Learned About Mike Mills’ ‘Beginners’" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. March 18, 2011.

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• 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.

  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

  Plato, Teaching, Writing

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• Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stars, Communication, Philosophical

  "Book of Disquietude".

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