Writing is a socially
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E. L. Doctorow
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E. L. Doctorow
The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it. Frank Sinatra
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word Frank Bough
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. Francois Fenelon
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry. Francis Chan
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
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. Florence Littauer
Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone. Douglas Adams
What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man? Delores Phillips
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. David Nicholls