With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally...

I bet I’ve noticed features on you that you have yet to distort in your imagination or discover. Remember how much I stared haha I was enamored with the simple things about you, so I...

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken...

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel;For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within.But, for the unquiet heart and brain,A use...

It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not...

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

Being a word wielder is far better than being a sword wielder. Greatest thing is you can still change the world.

Speaking and doing are two different actions springing up the two completely different results. But, the best result arrives when a man’s speaking of good words matches with his corresponding and timely action to benefit...

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

I get all sexy for you and you can’t even remember the words!

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books–I’m talking about my friends and myself–went beyond love. It was as...

The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jars...

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

If I had my life over again[, ] I’d have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing...

I’m the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of...

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Thoughts are roots; Words are leaves; Actions are fruits! Every success tree has all working normally!

The word is always a word for others. Words need to be heard. When wegive words to what we are living, these words need to be received andresponded to. A speaker needs a listener. A...

I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around...

Never underestimate the power of the words ‘I love you’ or the comfort of a simple hug. Grow your love daily.

The facts that make the world real– these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person’s entire day with just...

Words failed me at the precise moment I thought I was passing my vocabulary test, and I can’t tell you how that made me feel. At the time, I thought I felt, well, I couldn’t...

Einerseits geben Wörter Sinn, andererseits sind sie tauglich, Unsinn zu stiften. Wörter können heilsam oder verletzend sein. Das Wort als Waffe. Sich spreizende, auftrumpfende, mit Bedeutung gemästete Wörter. Manche sind Zungenbrecher, andere lassen erkennen, verschleiern,...

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple...

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there’s no end to them and they leave a funny taste in...

People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

Look into words for the tomb of spacewhere beauties & stones & eternities untangle.(…)In them is the flood which bothers the seaand the songs which need no music.Say these words that evolve into silence,whose language...

The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he...

Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don’t really mean anything, but they’re all I have.

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and...

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

A man’s words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man...

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

… it’s all words and only words, and beyond the words there’s nothing… a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain...

I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow...

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would...