Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

If you can talk, you can write.

Writing is always harder than talking.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

I like how I write better than how I speak.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.