Frederick Buechner Quotes

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

If you can talk, you can write.

word thrower … phrase maker

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.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The written word is everything.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

Some people compose their thoughts in front of a typewriter but I find that I am better at composing my thoughts in front of an audience.

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

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

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.