[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks imp...
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it wa...
Words are wind.
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.
What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.
We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world?
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.
There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-w...
The species greatest harvest words.
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river wate...
Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
She was still clutching the book.She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.
She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morni...