“ A bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere Emily Giffin
“ Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting t… Roald Dahl
“ We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there… Jose Saramago
“ It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times,… Joyce Carol Oates
“ But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the word… Jodi Picoult
“ As he lay there, fragments of past states of emotion, fugitive felicities of thought and sensation, rose and floated on the surface of his thoughts. It was one of those moments when the accumulated im… Edith Wharton
“ At the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not… Orhan Pamuk
“ I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason. Isabel Allende
“ The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. Marguerite Duras
“ The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers of dry husks of words which had been spoken and should be gone, the breaths exhaled not to be breat… William Gaddis
“ It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or… Jeanette Winterson
“ I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for lif… Richard Wright
“ I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the… Sue Monk Kidd
“ He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. James Joyce
“ And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, ad… Simon Winchester
“ Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young. David Brin
“ It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them. Terry Pratchett
“ And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number,… Bill Bryson
