I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that...
In the dark, words get lost.
Change is not the words you believe, it is the belief others have in you.~bns
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A b...
Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.
The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret pow...
We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic not...
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!
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that makes it new.
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
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...
The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.
Should' is my all time least favorite
M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...
Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you lo...
I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, i...