Sometimes words are harder than blows.

I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the driver something or get back into the taxi and return forthwith to Chillán...

Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you’re so into the world of the book, you forget what you’re looking at is words on a page.

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story...

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that,...

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.O, learn to read what silent love...

Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it’s never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you...

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

Conclusion 1:Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they’d been said. They take a long...

Of course words are magic. That’s why they call it spelling.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought...

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of...

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can’t truly be described.

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster

Speech is the deadliest of revealers.’ – Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

If you are tempted to revealA tale to you someone has toldAbout another, make it pass,Before you speak, three gates of gold;These narrow gates. First, “Is it true?”Then, “Is it needful?” In your mindGive truthful...

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able – having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym.

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel...

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Jackson,” he mused. “Not a name either one of you was born to.”Lizzie answered, “No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You...

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

He’d never actually been in a room with an insane person. Someone who asked questions they thought they already knew the answers to, or someone who asked, just to hear an answer they could disagree...

Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways...

I like to bunch words together to form new words, like “off” and “ice” to form “office.” But I have no idea what an office is, because I avoid work like the plague. Is office...

Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in “foreign commerce” on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are...

Word” is too long to be short, like a 4” tall non-midget. My favorite word is love, and though it’s not long, it’s by far the tallest word.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

That’s the point of words. They get around.

My books are a word feast.

I don’t know if there are words to describe my motivation.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of “niggardly,” who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the...

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can’t with words, that’s a really beautiful thing.