At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.
Be sure to bend but never break
Literature is my Utopia
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to gi...
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Translation is the art of failure.
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed b...
The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if...