Top 30 Written Word Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Written Word Quotes from famous people such as Jesse Kellerman, Henning Mankell, Francesca Lia Block, Kim Elizabeth, Hugh Mackay, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The final product in a play is not just the written wor

The final product in a play is not just the written word. It’s the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it’s only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.
Jesse Kellerman
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.
Henning Mankell
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive ‘stress’ of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block
I’ve always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.
Kim Elizabeth
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
Hugh Mackay
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.
Ken Howard
While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can – through the written word – lift someone’s burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.
Regina Brett
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Unless you’re doing Shakespeare or Chekhov… the written word is not sacrosanct.
Alan Arkin
I think that God has blessed each of us with innate gifts, and if I’ve demonstrated any ability to not stick my foot in my mouth on air or in the written word, then I will take that and stand for liberty on the right side of God.
Dana Loesch
I love to draw and paint. I’m very active in that way, but I’m not very good with the written word, though.
Mackenzie Foy
Littera scripta manet – ‘The written word will remain’. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.
Christopher Hitchens
When you are mute, you become a good listener – it’s all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
James Earl Jones
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
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
Terri Windling
There’s been resistance to every new technology that’s ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn’t stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.
Jeremy Stoppelman
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not – or were not permitted to – read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Theodore Bikel
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
David LaChapelle
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
Katherine Paterson
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
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
People are always saying it’s the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it’s a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it’s a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
John Ralston Saul
The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care and a lot more details.
Mani Ratnam
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn’t express myself in the written word.
Laura Linney
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
Oriana Fallaci
The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
Andy Biersack