41 quotes found
“Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.”
“If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.”
“Words shall not be hidnor spells buriedmight shall not sink undergroundthough the mighty go.”
“What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?”
“The words sink and rise along the streets, are breathed in and out by the citizens, are pressed like bombs into the hands of the children, and thrown against the walls of the city. And the walls of...”
“Look up to know you got up from below!”
“And not only narrativity but the quality of the writing is of the first importance to me. Rightly or not, I believe a dull, inept style signals poverty or incompleteness of thought. I see the accur...”
“There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just dont understand. And incomprehension ...”
“Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. Ther words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuh...”
“Ill gotten power, money knowledge and qualifications will vanish faster than realized”
“I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart.”
“Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great k...”
“Words have longer lives than people.”
“A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe ...”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“Words have no power... which you do not give them.”
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they g...”
