“ The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation. James Reston
“ Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication. Oren Arnold
“ Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light. William Jovanovich
“ Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses.… National Geographic Society
“ Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows. Sathya Sai Baba
“ We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors. Tracie Molton
“ My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life! Trishna Damodar
“ Your words can only act like the path. It is your actions that define your destiny. Trishna Damodar
“ My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday. Nikki Rowe
“ I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us… Franz Kafka
“ A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the B… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words. Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
“ I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories. Jason J. Black
“ Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Helen Dunmore
“ I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“ To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote
“ Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.… Steve Prefontaine
