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It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death. — Lisa See

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass. — Tom Robbins

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

The written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds — Wes Moore

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. — Beth Moore

You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair. — Franz Kafka

If loving the written word is wrong ... I don't want to be right! — Junnita Jackson

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. — Malala Yousafzai

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I — Madeleine L'Engle

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. — John Steinbeck

Morality is totally God's standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). — Reid A. Ashbaucher

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could. — Bill Wyman

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. — Charles Spurgeon

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors. — Neil Postman

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. — Ma Jian

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. — James Lafferty

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them. — C.F. Heller

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov ... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. — Andromeda Edison

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. — Teresa Mummert

The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts. — R.C. Sproul

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives. — Howard G. Hendricks

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written. — John Selden

The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word. — Sorin Cerin

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

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. — John F. Kennedy

She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart. — Adam Johnson

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word. — John Wimber

[M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts. — Samuel Rutherford

The written word is the choicest of relics. — Henry David Thoreau

Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written ... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.' — Jean Craighead George

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

Cherish the Written Word! — John Fioravanti

When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it. — K.J. Parker

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. — William Gibson

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

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. — Joseph Conrad

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. — Adolf Hitler

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln

Are you using that handbag that has the word fuck written all over it again? I warned you about taking that out in public. — Darynda Jones

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

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. — Wilferd Peterson

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or — John Calvin

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs. — Orson Scott Card

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. — Peter Drucker

Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic. — George R R Martin

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

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word - Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man. — Victor Hugo

The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood. — Ronnell D. Porter

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically:
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written. — Edward Albee

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word ... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. — James Howe

Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken. — Edgar A. Guest

The girl who'd written volumes on the walls but never said a word. — Sarah Ockler

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally. — Alicia Keys

The written word is everything. — John Drinkwater

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers

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

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. — Jeanette Winterson

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Ted Dekker

There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus". — Gerald Mills

Just as the Bible is God's written Word, so Jesus is God's living Word. — Billy Graham

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem. — Megan Hart

The human genome is a life written in a book where every word has been written before. A story endlessly rehearsed. — Johnny Rich

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions. — Jared Brock

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written. — Anthony Marra

The true word of God is written in our heart. — KRS-One

God will never - never - lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible. — Billy Graham

The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue — Cornelia Funke

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

This experiment succeeds especially well, we think, if the letters written on the board form by their ensemble one single word. — Anonymous

The joy is is in the written word — A.C. Gaughen

Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives. — Lynn M. Dixon

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it. — Helen Mirren

Mysteries are fine things, but the written word should be preserved, intact, and free of extraneous error. — Sandra Staas

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. — Zoe Kazan

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. — Christopher Hitchens

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. — A.E. Samaan

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it. — Stella Benson

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. — Oriana Fallaci

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. — J.E.B. Spredemann

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

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry. — Akshay Vasu

He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway. — Colin Dexter

Don't test God's truth by the "many books" written by men; test men's books by the truth of God's Word. Yes, — Warren W. Wiersbe

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me. — Michel Foucault

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. — Hugh Mackay

It is certainly the demiurge about whom Stenger and Dawkins write; neither has actually ever written a word about God. — David Bentley Hart

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

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. — Sandra Bullock

Not if he wanted to be able to look at himself in the mirror in the morning without seeing the word asshole written across his forehead. — Bella Andre

She was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said. — Lang Leav