Written Communication Quotes

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I'm one of those people who writes out words. All of my text messages? You can read them. Everyone would know what I'm trying to say. My sister will say 'BTW.' Do you mean 'by the way'? Is that what you're trying to say?

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselves and it's not hearsay.

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

The written word is everything.

How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

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

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.