The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of...

Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they have! They can make you laugh or cry, love or hate, fight or run away. They...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the...

Words don’t always work. Sometimes they come up short. Conversations can lead to conflict. There are failures of diplomacy. Some differences, for all the talk in the world, remain irreconcilable. People make empty promises, go...

See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling....

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?…I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside...

Books are readable drugs.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

I told them in the same words Coach Rob used: no half-stepping. This is a tournament that if you lose, you go home. And that’s something that we really don’t want to happen right now....

He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go,...

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.

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

in the beginning was the Word,” John writes, and perhaps part of what that means is that until there is a word, there can be no beginning. Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an...

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Word — That invisible dagger.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don’t understand at all because the culture’s so strange to me.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

I’d rather coin a few words than coin a few quarters, nickels, or dimes.

sideways” comes out straight.

Superfluous is just too super. I feel like the word needs something extra, like a cape.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

I was really tired of words like ‘plus size,’ ’round’ and ‘large.’ I thought, ‘Come on, we’re fat.’

Good words cool more than cold water.

My words are like axe don’t dare to interferes with your finger.

Confusion is a web of words.

How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I like good strong words that mean something…

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds...

I don’t believe in signs. I believe in words, and action, and doing. And what you’re doing is sitting and waiting and that is one hundred percent unacceptable.

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a...

I have written a few children’s books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called ‘The Package’, and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” – Verb.

People don’t follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. – Liesel Meminger

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes…put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.