Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

I want to say more, but don’t know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air...

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

No comment” is a comment so I never really understood.

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are… seductive. And I like words because they can contain… fantasies.

How could an alphabet—letters that didn’t even mean anything by themselves—be important?But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle’s newspaper.It was all about words.If words weren’t important, they wouldn’t try so...

Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

When I say, ‘I can’t stay long, I’m in-between meals,’ that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not...

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

Except that love – that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power – could not possibly be contained in a single word.

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people’s brains for some reason, that just amused...

I wanted a library like this…[] A cave of words that I’d made myself.

I love these words that just can’t be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.

By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is...

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

No one really knows what words mean these days.

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without...

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Once you’ve invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story’s grown to around a half-million words and can’t be written as anything less than a trilogy.

In other words, homes that would have sold for $900,000 in 2004 sold for more than a million last year.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words.””Yes, that’s right,” I agreed.”I’ve noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite?”I nodded assuredly and...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

Worte können sein wie winzige Arsendosen: sie werden unbemerkt verschluckt, sie scheinen keine Wirkung zu tun, und nach einiger Zeit ist die Giftwirkung doch da.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you’ll have as an actor are when you’ll have three words to say.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a “game changer” or get played like an idiot.

Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light...

I don’t like the word ‘allegorical’, I don’t like the word ‘symbolic’ – the word I really like is ‘mythic’, and people always think that means ‘full of lies’, whereas of course what it really...

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me–I have no others.

It’s tough to put it into words. And that’s something that’s rare for me to say.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people...

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?

But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

It is odd that ‘sword’ and ‘words’ have the same letters and even more strange that they have the same effect.

I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

No matter how hard you try, there are times when things just don’t go as planned. And, it’s not because you are doing something wrong. It is because the thing you are after is not...