Writing And Speaking Quotes
Collection of top 38 famous quotes about Writing And Speaking
Writing And Speaking Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Writing And Speaking quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
— Margaret Atwood
[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.
— Kristyn Van Cleave
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
— Jack Canfield
When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
— Cheryl Strayed
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
— A.A. Milne
Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.
— Chris Dietzel
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
— Baron De Montesquieu
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
— Cleveland Amory
If, while writing your novel, it starts "speaking" to you, don't answer back, keep it talking.
— David John Griffin
Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.
— Samantha Shannon
I write-down to speak-up.
— M.K. Asante Jr.
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.
— Cate Blanchett
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
— Henry Rollins
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.
— Stedman Graham
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.
— Jerry Stahl
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
— Henry David Thoreau
I write to say what I cannot speak
— Ben Mitchell
Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth ...
— Natalie Goldberg
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
— Sara Sheridan
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes words I think are small come out big.
— Corey Ann Haydu
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
— Clement Of Alexandria
If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.
— David Foster Wallace
If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.
— Joshua Radin
God writes love and speaks poetry.
— Criss Jami
You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
— Elizabeth McCracken
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
— Ishmael Beah
Introverts often prefer writing to speaking, because writing uses a different neurological pathway in the brain than speaking does.
— Adam S. McHugh
Practice writing and speaking about what you do.
— Sanford Biggers
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill