Words Quotes

How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be impo

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythica...

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

I like good strong words that mean something…

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

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

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully ri...

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without ...

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

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This...

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean somethin...

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your wor...

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-...

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind with...

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without hav...

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she...

The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable ...

That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning w...

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with wo...

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is...

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had...

Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy ...

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered t...

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope ...

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory ...

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my firs...

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibi...

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, an...

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he...

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...

Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies de...

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic...

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professiona...

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out o...

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning ...

Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.

The medium is the message.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple -- or a green field -- a place to enter, and in whi...

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], s...

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set o...

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the w...

If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey noth...

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entranc...

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: wi...

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best...

'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedie...

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though ...

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who is...

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Ba...

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades ...

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure...

Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good wo...

Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was n...

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sou...

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr...

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...

Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word "life” is the king of words. The king...

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their ...

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affa...

A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept...

What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--...

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they...

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and...

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue nativ...

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginni...

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettabl...

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...

And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the f...

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as ...

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to ...

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe...