Language Quote by Daniel Kemp

“If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but it's left on its own it means nothing. If it’s joined by…

— Daniel Kemp

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin…

— Neil Gaiman

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having…

— John Dewey

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

— Edward J. Fraughton

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into information. Words…

— John R. Dallas Jr

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

— Rumi

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

— Maya Angelou

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

— Dan Simmons

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,…

— Diane Ackerman

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with.…

— Samuel R. Delany