Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

If you can talk, you can write.

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

Writing is always harder than talking.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

Those who write clearly have readers.

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

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

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

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

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.