Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The night before, I’d gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it’s true that I was hoping that in them he’d see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

All I know is, I don’t do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don’t want actors reasoning with me about ‘motivation’ and all...

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe...

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms).

Never let the words of discouragement from others sway you away from reaching far with your dreams.

You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell you earlier.

It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as to my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood...

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer… they’ve got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the...

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

Dad.” (By the way, Bob is NOT my dad).

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:I was a poet, I was young.Since I can never see your face,And never shake you by the hand,I send...

101 Pies I’ve Never Eaten—And Neither Should You.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

Thomas loved words, particularly if he didn’t understand them.

No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don’t normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set...

If you have the experience, why do you need the words?

When I’m writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can’t read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food...

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself […].

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt.That the words were just words on a page, but in real...

Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words.I don’t believe in “sadness”, “joy”, or “regret”.Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my...

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as...

I know now that the poem in my head, the one that pushed me to the page, begged me – or dared me to be born is almost never the poem that comes out. I...

And on the days I couldn’t breathe, I learned to paint air.

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of...

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginnings, write of sin.You’re the book I love the best,your skin only holds my truth, you will be...

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

When they’re gone out of his head, these words, they’ll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

I don’t listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

some of the first words a child learns are brand names, because they don’t have to sound them out. It becomes part of your environmental vocabulary [Whitney Curry Wimbish & Sarah Gerard, “The Binary Companion,”...

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it’s a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

I crossed oceans for you,Turned over every rock,Climbed the highest mountains,Holding on to the words you said,Reliving your touch inside my head,The taste of you on the tip of my tongue,Only to be left with...

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn’t say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in – the moment...

Freedom is…the right to write the wrong words.

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start out in parts where you have very few words, but you still have...

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

Whatever characterization one may choose to place on Satan, “imbecile message maker” doesn’t fit. This was no third-ranking demon out there in the wilderness throwing lines at Christ. This was the manic master who understood...

He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.