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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.