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Words Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
- Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there…
- Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can…
- I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to…
- Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've…
- If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
- I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the…
- Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can…
- Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they…
- I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am…
- It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you…
- Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
- I learned to love the feel of good words.
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden