Language Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

Some people read. I like to put words together.

— Iman Shumpert

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me,…

— Alberto Manguel

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their…

— William Zinsser

I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it.

— Liv Bruce

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

— Elie Wiesel

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word…

— Dick Cavett

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

— Ben Okri

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

— Bill Cosby

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

— Annie Dillard

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…

— Gerald Brenan

I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And…

— R. Kelly