To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
I try to tell you how I feel, but words will never make it real. — Ryaj Ablando-Catayas Copy Share Image
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out… — Richard B. Knight Copy Share Image
Words are meaningless; sugarcoat nothing. Save your words; make them count. Let your words be as a hammer of truth, such that… — Josh Q Copy Share Image
“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make… — Suyog Ketkar Copy Share Image
“Isn't it a funny thing, truly, that all it can take is just a few loving words to make you believe that… — Evan Reeves Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“The problem with stores and songs - no, scratch that, the problem with words -- is that they make us squeeze all… — Anne Corlett Copy Share Image
“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“When your voice is soft like snow, all the words you pick to show, that even your nothing can be a good… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“In America: each year the day before school after summer vacation I sat on my bed touching my notebooks, pencils, ruler-holding the… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“And your words …” “Tell me about my words.” “They make me crazy.” “Which ones, specifically?” “All of them. Any of them.”… — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
