The moon was up now and the trees were dark against it, and he passed the frame houses with their narrow yards, light coming from the shuttered windows; the unpaved alleys, with their double rows...

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long...

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Symptoms of Love…The quickening of my heart I can hear my breath as it passes through my body like wind through branches of a tree.The sensation in my chest the dreams in my head my...

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a...

How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?… We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However,...

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’...

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn’t write or read horror or fantasy, other than children’s fantasy, until I was in my teens.

As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive...

Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing...

En la memoria de Polonio la palabra nadien se había clavado, insólita, singular, como si fuese la suma de un número infinito de significaciones. Nadien, este plural triste. De nadie era la culpa, del destino,...

Ketika semua kata kata sudah tidak berarti untuk seseorang, biarkanlah waktu yang akan mengartikan semua kata kata itu.

There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but...

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

…being with you was so easy and natural – there was no strain – I never had to guard my words…

If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won’t need to listen to my words.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Las palabras nunca desaparecen, sino que hacen eco para la eternidad. Deja que tu eco suene dulce.

Does it matter that people and thingsHave words,Have names?If not,Why read any book?A litany of useless lettersDetached from bone, muscle.Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,PersonReal?

Words are nets through which all truth escapes(“News From The World”)

What are the thorns really telling her? It’s why she won’t let us see them, why she clings to them–or they cling to her–as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she...

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Let’s have some new cliches.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it’s going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Words have weight.

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.

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...

Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type.

…speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words…

Keep my word’ is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means ‘Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, ‘Hold your words back.’ Keep them in. Let your...

what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and...

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.