The Power of Speech vs. Writing

Few people fail to communicate their messages and much of themselves in speech, whereas writings, unless produced by one with literary gifts, carry little of the writer and are interpreted far more according to the reader’s understanding or prejudice.”

— J. C. Carothers, “Culture, Psychiatry, and the Written Word,” Psychiatry, 22 (1959), 311.

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