Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is…

Where words fail, music speaks.

— Hans Christian Andersen

When words fail, music speaks.

— Irena Huang

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

— Ken Liu

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work.…

— Frank Luntz

My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear…

— Eudora Welty

“On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and…

— Dylan Thomas

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as…

— Bob Seger

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

— Jay-Z

Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to…

— Mary J. Miller

“In truth, language seems less like a series of cells in which we are imprisoned than like a set of tools that help us…

— Anonymous

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my…

— Gretchen Rubin

When you work with words, words are your work.

— Don Knotts

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

— Sandra Bullock

“For some moments in life, there is no need for words and all you have to do is to do the work and get…

— Geoffrey Ocaya