Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

A good writer is impatient on behalf of the reader. They ruthlessly eliminate unnecessary information and needless words. They are respectful of the reader’s time by only including what matters.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.

And empty words are evil.

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven’t forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to...

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I...

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort...

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

I can’t put it into words. It’s an adrenaline rush. I think you have to be a quarterback with scrambling ability to understand it.

Let deeds match words.

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.

Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars.

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all!

The Best Sword that Kills without a Wound:- Words…!

On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words ‘James Bond’ again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it’s the only movie in the world...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and...

object,” no form that stops at a boundary, only a stream of manifold, precise, and nameless sensations, shifting into one another, pullulating, a fullness, a flow. Stripped of words, untamed, the universe pours in on...

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of...

Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they have! They can make you laugh or cry, love or hate, fight or run away. They...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the...

Words don’t always work. Sometimes they come up short. Conversations can lead to conflict. There are failures of diplomacy. Some differences, for all the talk in the world, remain irreconcilable. People make empty promises, go...

See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling....

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?…I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside...

Books are readable drugs.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

I told them in the same words Coach Rob used: no half-stepping. This is a tournament that if you lose, you go home. And that’s something that we really don’t want to happen right now....

He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go,...

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.