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• Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

  Frank Bough

  Funny, Passion, Dumb

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• 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.

  Lawrence Hill

  Writing, Heart, Sleep

  Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

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• The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

  Francois Fenelon

  War, Book, Past

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• 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.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Powerful, Lying

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• 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.

  Louise Penny

  Hero, World, Rooms

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• 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.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Home, Doors

  Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.160, National Geographic Books

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• 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.

  Will Cuppy

  Country, Hate, Mean

  "How to Get From January to December". Book by Will Cuppy, 1951.

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• 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.

  Gene Barry

  Attitude, Reading, Guy

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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Scary, Information, Fit

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• Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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

  Megan Whalen Turner

  World, Weapons, Strange

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

  Miranda Hart

  Privilege, Hello, Dear

  "he battle of the celebrity memoirs" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• 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

  Self, Shoes, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

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• 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.

  Ellen Lupton

  Book, Reading, Offering

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.87, Chronicle Books

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• Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

  Ivan Doig

  Soldier, Courses, Breaths

  Ivan Doig (2009). “The Eleventh Man”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.

  Erin Richards

  Children, Lying, Stupid

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• 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.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Character, Appreciate, Roles

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• 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.

  Alan Thicke

  Successful, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.

  Zach Anner

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• 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

  Song, Reading, Needs

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• 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

  Believe, Book, Technology

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.13, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Anita Loos

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Walton Goggins

  People, Matter, Bread

  Source: collider.com

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• Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

  John Galsworthy

  Honesty, Jewels, Prejudice

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• 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

  Errors, Suits, Problem

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