In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Chuck Palahniuk

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

Adora Svitak

War Age Youth

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

Alan Arkin

You Written Word Written

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

Alice McDermott

Time Life Written Word

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Alicia Keys

Love Written Word Written

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

Andy Biersack

Power Great Written Word

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Antonin Scalia

Men Government Written Word

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Ashwin Sanghi

Love Learning Age

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

Christopher Hitchens

Written Word Written Word

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Chuck Palahniuk

Work You Written Word

When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture.

Colleen Atwood

Work Time Yin

I think that God has blessed each of us with innate gifts, and if I've demonstrated any ability to not stick my foot in my mouth on air or in the written word, then I will take that and stand for liberty on the right side of God.

Dana Loesch

God Written Word Written

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

David LaChapelle

Age Written Word Written

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

Eric Metaxas

God You Written Word

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Francesca Lia Block

Positive Happiness Written Word

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Gene Barry

Attitude You Guys You

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

Henning Mankell

Truth Time Men

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

Hill Harper

Positive Courage Age

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

Hugh Mackay

Written Word Written Word

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Ibrahim Babangida

Technology Written Word Written

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

J. A. Konrath

Years Year Written Word

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

James Earl Jones

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

James Howe

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

James Lafferty

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.

Jason Reitman

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

Jeremy Stoppelman

The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.

Jesse Kellerman

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.

John Ralston Saul

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

John Steinbeck

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

Katherine Paterson

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

Ken Howard

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

Kim Elizabeth

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Kurt Loder

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

Laura Linney

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Mackenzie Foy

A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care and a lot more details.

Mani Ratnam

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

Mike Mills

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Nora Roberts

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Oriana Fallaci

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.

Raghav Bahl

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Randy Wayne White

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

Regina Brett

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.

Richard Dawkins

I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally.

Rupi Kaur

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

Saoirse Ronan

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

Simon McBurney

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Ta-Nehisi Coates