Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.
Words,' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first r...
A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.
A word of encouragement goes a long way.
Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.
Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave...
When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.
My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It !
A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.
Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms t...
Showing 21 to 33 of 33 results