Words Quotes
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"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?"
"I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku."
"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."
"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."
"String several words together in a sentence and you have a language necklace. My I love you would look great with your favorite red dress."
"Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her."
"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."
"Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus."
"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."
"All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line."
"My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of parole."
"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
"I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words."
"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."
"Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do."
"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."
"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."
"A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
"Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up."
"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland."
"I never met a word I didn't love"
"I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them."
"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."
"To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist."
"A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping."
"Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon."
"I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them."
"Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave youfeelinghomelessor brimmingwith home."
"There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written."
"Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it."
"…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew…."
"Old words are reborn with new faces."
"The true poem rests between the words."
"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."
"And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!"
"I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."
"Are all caps really necessary? No need to shout at me. My hearing is perfect when the words arrive in my mind through my eyes."
"Kind words change the world."
"Her words are her wings. She's flying."
"Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind."
"I think a man's "wordplay" can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!"
"Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied."
"Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words."
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things."
Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
"Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words."
"To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth"
"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."
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