Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

V.S. Pritchett’s definition of a short story is ‘something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.’ Notice the ‘glimpse’ part of this. First the glimpse. Then the glimpse gives life, turned into something...

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Where everything is words, you’d think I’d have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all...

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself...

That’s how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits,...

I don ‘ t have words to describe what ‘ s going on here,

He’d call me false and faithless and I’ve always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they’re the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was...

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.

I really just don’t have the words for it. It’s so sweet and I’m so thankful.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the...

Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It’s become fashionable to try to ban words we’re uncomfortable with, which you really can’t do in the first place. You can no more ban a word...

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[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient’s emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless wordsIs one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare’s words.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man’s thought. We should not speak without reason.

She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild...

Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less.

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men ‘mesmerize’ each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the...

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

I’m asleep.” You always were more romantic than me.

(…) às vezes não se tem o que escrever mesmo quando se tem o que falar.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, ‘That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!’ You never hear a...

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in...

Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.

The word very will vary in muchiness. I love you very much, and that won’t vary from day to day.

The sound of words as they’re said is always different from the sound they make when they’re heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

…Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings….

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.

I love the words, because they love me too.

What one does is always worth more than words.

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also...

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an...

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to...

You do not need words to tell the truth.