Written Word Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

  Joseph Conrad

  Encouragement, Trying, Glimpse

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

  Neil Postman

  Disappear, Endure, Spoken Word

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.21, Penguin

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• I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Moving, Reading

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

  Gail Carriger

  Teacher, Grateful, Independent

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• It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

  Daniel Handler

  Receiving, News, Letters

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Believe, Manners, Word Of God

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