“ Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted Aharon Appelfeld
“ Cristofer did not write because he feared forgetting something. He never forgot anything, even when he reached old age. For Cristofer, the written word seemed to regulate the world. Stop its fluctuati… Evgenij Vodolazkin
“ Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from in… Markus Zusak
“ Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from ins… Markus Zusak
“ But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. Gregory Maguire
“ But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messeng… Margaret Atwood
“ A man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue... Terry Pratchett
“ Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type. Rigzin Namgyal
“ All words are written in the same ink,'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed. Philippe Jaccottet
“ There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With th… Aimee Bender
“ Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where… Jack Kerouac
“ There’s another quote on the act of writing letters, have a look: Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time bel… Ricardo Piglia
“ That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the… Jeanette Winterson
“ She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series o… Markus Zusak
“ Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light and frothy, f… Stephen Fry
“ He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn'… William Faulkner
