Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that’s a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than...

I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Laptab: A touchscreen notebook, laptop, computer.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

I don’t know what a credit bubble means. I don’t even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don’t think they have any meaning.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow...

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that...

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It’s a moment in which your work...

I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back...

Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.

Ce n’est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.”(“It’s not the first time I’ve noticed how much more power words have than ideas,...

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

I loved all the words in his book—just not in the order he arranged them, or the frequency with which he used them. To improve his work, I’d combine the words in a different way...

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she’d heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that’s when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could...

words make some unique ; words destroy some

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.

To say exactly what one means, even to one’s own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on...

What happens is always worth more than words.

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I’m important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words...

Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up...

Once I came across two ideographs for the word “love.” The first contained the root words “heart” and “hand” and “action”-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for “passionate love,” was...

When you translate poetry in particular, you’re obliged to look at how the writer with whom you’re working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the...

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence,...

words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only...

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else – not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others,...

Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

She couldn’t tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.

…I gave you painted air – tears I couldn’t weep – truths I couldn’t speak – all the words that caught in my throat…

Chocolate says “I’m sorry” so much better than words.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Words.I’m surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate.Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus.Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent.Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes—each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my...

Once they’re on paper, they’re gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Strong words resonate.

V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens,...