Words Quotes

I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

~ Ey Wade

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

~ Margaret Atwood

The species greatest harvest ― words.

~ David Brin

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

~ Chris Lynch

Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use.

~ Richard Diaz

Let's have some new cliches.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of 1 for the second h in the word hither. Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for the thrill of obscure predictions; all he sought was the freak itself, the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower; and Cynthia, a much more perverse amateur of misshapen or illicitly connected words, puns, logogriphs, and so on, had helped the poor crank to pursue a quest that in the light of the example she cited struck me as statistically insane. (The Vane Sisters)

~ Vladimir Nabokov

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.

~ Richard Mitchell

Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

~ Antonya Nelson

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

~ David Brin

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.

~ Adam Gopnik

It is too sad . I must speak to him- The do you really ?- Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak?- Earlier , you talked to Mr. Omochi . Do you feel that things have thus been arranged?- What is certain is that if we do not talk , there is no chance to solve the problem.- What seems more certain is that if we talk, there is serious risk of aggravating the situation.

~ Amélie Nothomb

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?

~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town marveling at the way that the words of the foreign language were freshly gathered fruits and not old and dry. They touched the senses marvelously, new like young beggars who accost you, not yet words but the every things they designate, happily running naked before being clothed again in abstraction.

~ Georges Limbour

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.

~ T. Kingfisher

Words are like the wind. They will blow away your own footsteps but they also will blow away the footsteps and thoughts of others. Use them wisely and with care.

~ Brent M

In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

~ Lavie Tidhar

In the dark, words get lost.

~ Marty Rubin

Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

What must I say, that you don’t know on your own?

~ Nikhil Shrivastava

A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A right word counts the silence, a bad word is counted by the page.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Unwritten words grow out of silence.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

~ Charles Dickens

Words without warmth are dead words.

~ Marty Rubin

Find the words that cause reflection in you. That is where true learning begins.

~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

~ J.g. Ballard

Before you speak it, know it! Before you act it, understand it. And when your words and actions go wrong, humbly learn to accept your slips for a progressive change. Learning never ends!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Pareidolia describes the human tendency to find meaning where there is none. Take the man in the moon, for example; we raise our eyes, and there, in lifeless markings of bedrock and basalt, we find a human face. We’re hardwired to look for patterns in the Rorschach of the natural world: a woman’s reclining form in the curve of a mountain range, the Virgin Mary in a water stain on a concrete wall. We want the world to be both known and mysterious. We’re looking for evidence of God, or maybe just for company. (53)

~ Carolyn Parkhurst

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

~ Markus Zusak

For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark secrets. A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity.

~ Hermann Hesse

Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself, and when the husks are discarded, they lie on the road and rot and disappear. Actions are what lie inside, like the bean.

~ David Bergen

whispers are often thunderous

~ Richard Smyth

Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.

~ L M Bryski