The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. John Steinbeck
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.
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
There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. Malala Yousafzai
One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Japanese Proverb
The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains. [Vox audita perit, litteras scripta manet.]. Latin Proverb