A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.
“Great time is for those who made effort. Better time is for those who made gain.”
“Those who are equipped will survived. Those who are not will not.”
“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”
“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”
“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”
“What a curious power words have.”
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”
“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”