A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

I wish I could read what she’s written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It’s just the nature of the words he writes.

Literature is my Utopia

We’re living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we’re left with this cluttered world of language.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear … And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use...

All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great...

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as ‘competently bossy’ and ‘bossily competent’ by a male journalist, and I thought, ‘Gosh, ‘bossy’ is never used of a man.’

I’ll bet I could find some hurtful words in a pile of sticks and stones. Something like an insincere and deceptive “I love you.

The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On...

Remember to say what you mean, but don’t say it meanly.

With math, I remember all of the words—and none of the numbers. I’m also like that with love.

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

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

You don’t realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when...

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there’s nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts – I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I...

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after. Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney,...

Six Stars,’ he exclaimed. ‘Finding the right words is hard!

silence between two words is an endless road.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I...

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort...

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

I can’t put it into words. It’s an adrenaline rush. I think you have to be a quarterback with scrambling ability to understand it.

Let deeds match words.

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.

Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars.

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all!