Quotes About Words

I'm one of those people who writes out words. All of my text messages? You can read them. Everyone would know what I'm trying to say. My sister will say 'BTW.' Do you mean 'by the way'? Is that what you're trying to say?

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.

but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. Is this a magic spell? the girl asked her. Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it is a moronic proclamation by the Emperor.  Words have their impact, girl.  Mind your manners.  I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. -Out of Oz

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

But he loved the contrapuntality of discussion even before he quite understood that words possessed dedicated meanings.

Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

Also there was the thrill, basis indeterminable, which made Glinda shy, and caused her to rush her words, and to speak in a false high voice like an adolescent. How quickly you could be thrown back to the terrible uncertainty of your youth! For

There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon our thoughts.

The very words we choose to characterize our habits can make them seem more or less appealing. Engagement time sounds more interesting than than email time; playing the piano sounds more fun than practicing the piano;

Once I've spelled out the problem in words, the greater clarity usually helps me to spot a solution.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.

Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.

Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.

Het woord is trouwens net een mangel die gevoelens gladstrijkt.

Le seul moyen de supporter l'existence, c'est de s'étourdir dans la littérature comme dans une orgie perpétuelle.

Sometimes your words come back to me like a distant echo, like the sound of a bell carried by the wind, and when I read love passages in. books, it seems to me that it is you about whom I am reading.

Ponekad mi se vaše re?i vra?aju u svest kao daleki odjek, kao zvuk zvona koji donosi vetar; i ?ini mi se da ste tu, kraj mene, kad u knjigama ?itam odlomke koji govore o ljubavi.

La parole est un laminoir qui allonge toujours les sentiments