I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books al...
I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Words should be weighed and not counted.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.
Words are just words who they come from gives them relevance and this relevance gives them the power to hurt you. Make those who hurt you irrelevant.
For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to hi...
I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.
Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.
May our words blaze the way to our future
I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word
Good intentions do not always suffice.
So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it fo...