Sigmund Freud Quotes

We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

The world is waiting to hear from you.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

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

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.