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