Written Word Quotes

I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.

Felicia Johnson

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.

Without written goals, we fail to plan and to run with single-minded purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita