When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day’s 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on...

Well, it seems I was able to get the words ‘Shabbat Shalom’ in the father’s mouth, … And there seems to be a certain Jewish quality to the whole show. So if it does seem...

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living...

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so...

Nationalism – in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies – consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are...

…art is weaker than life – in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order – rune tiles to cast my fate…

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or...

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

Words are very powerful,” Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. “And they take on more power the more they’re spoken…. “The more they’re said and read and written,in specific, consistent combinations.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Have constructive thoughts, consoling words, compassionate acts.

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years.

Don’t, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

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.