Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Text. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Text Quotes And Sayings by 94 Authors including Neil Macgregor,Tom Chatfield,John Corvino,Isaac Marion,Truman Capote for you to enjoy and share.
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative -- Neil Macgregor
Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too. -- Tom Chatfield
There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text. -- John Corvino
Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory. -- Isaac Marion
That's not writing, that's typing. -- Truman Capote
Writing is the painting of the voice. -- Voltaire
Words are life set down on paper. -- Paulo Coelho
Writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe. -- Andrea A. Lunsford
Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. -- Geoff Nicholson
Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words. -- Barbara Case Speers
Writing has the power of permanence. -- Bryant Mcgill
I can't text. My fingers are too big. -- Denis Leary
The written word is everything. -- John Drinkwater
A text message has no soul, no matter how many commas you shift. -- Vikki Wakefield
If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be! -- Lynn Barber
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature -- Nadine Gordimer
Writing is thinking on paper -- William Zinsser
The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner. -- Jan Tschichold
Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world. -- William E. Jefferson
What are letters?"
"Kinda like mediaglyphics except they're all black, and they're tiny, they don't move, they're old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use 'em to make short words for long words. -- Neal Stephenson
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event. -- Edward J. Fraughton
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth ... all those glorious words. -- Cornelia Funke
We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. -- Cristen Rodgers
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard. -- Paulo Coelho
Type should be beautiful - Screw readable! -- Ed Benguiat
Concering the power of the written word -- Julie Hearn
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. -- John Mcwhorter
Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one. -- Chris Matakas
Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop. -- Kato Lomb
We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids]. -- Nancy Lublin
When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place -- Alan Dapre
Translating is writing. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. -- Galen Rowell
What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course. -- Stephen King
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. -- Marshall Mcluhan
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography. -- Herb Lubalin
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate. -- Robert Crumb
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. -- Eduardo Galeano
Thoughts to words, words to paper.
A gift we give ourselves, both now and later. -- Nancy Fraser
Formatting is no substitute for writing. -- Leslie Lamport
Twitter actually may be improving its users' writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it -- Christian Rudder
The power of letters is immeasurable. Use them with care". -- Kyoka Izumi
Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action. -- Bill O'reilly
If you subscribe to Sherry Turkle's argument that the prevalence of text-based communications is leading to a decline in face-to-face conversations and the skills to conduct them, the shift makes total sense. -- Aziz Ansari
Generating text yourself requires more cognitive effort than does reading, and effort increases memorability, -- Clive Thompson
What is writing? Writing is telepathy. -- Stephen King
Writing can be a source of strength
-Wang Liang -- Xinran
See what is invisible and you will see what to write -- Ronald Everett Capps
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product. -- Ellen Lupton
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. -- Confucius
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. -- Sandra Brown
Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit. -- Maria Tatar
That isn't writing at all, it's typing. -- Truman Capote
There is beauty in the written word.'
-Kevin -- T.j. Klune
words are but pictures of our thoughts -- John Dryden
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. -- Jules Renard
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Writing is the new reading -- Emlyn Hall
You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power. -- Chloe Neill
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. -- Robert Bringhurst
The power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. -- Jeanette Winterson
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. -- John Ciardi
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar. -- Richard Corliss
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk? -- John Mcwhorter
Writing makes you more human. -- John Updike
Write Makes Might! -- Kevin James Breaux
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted. -- William Hughes Mearns
Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. -- Terry Tempest Williams
The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces. -- Sigmund Freud
I wanted to write. -- Christopher Hitchens
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls. -- Hillary Carlip
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood. -- David Crystal
The letters make words and words make us. -- David Almond
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before. -- Mel Brooks
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Write like no one is reading. -- Crystal Woods
I write to say what I cannot speak -- Ben Mitchell
There is beauty in the written word, -- T.j. Klune
I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything. -- Billy Bob Thornton
Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer. -- Kevin James Breaux
The only thing more powerful than words
- is the Author who chooses them. -- K.a. Gunn
Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard -- Gbickle
Texts are always in flux. -- Robert Darnton
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress. -- Piers Anthony
What mattered was writing it: the act of words. -- Rose Tremain
Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters. -- David Horsey
Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not. -- Debasish Mridha
Writing is the soul having its say. -- Beem Weeks
Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them. -- Jane Lindskold
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Why are some things easier to write than say? -- Ally Condie
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing. -- Ernest Hemingway,
Writing means making things large. -- Christa Wolf
Text without context is pretext. -- Walter Martin
Text me back: a love story. -- Melissa Broder
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing. -- Octavio Paz
It's true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source. -- Nick Harkaway
For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white. -- Kathryn Stockett
Words on the page are never prisoners of the page -- Sonya Hartnett
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
