Language Quote by Diane Chamberlain

“He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.”

— Ayn Rand

“He only had the imperfect medium of words.”

— Sara Gruen

“I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is.”

— Laurence Cossé

“... he realized too late how important a few words were.”

— Ed Duncan

“In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.”

— Terry Pratchett

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he…

— Jay Crownover

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“He had never been good at expressing himself. What he felt was so big it was difficult to find the words, and even if…

— Rachel Joyce

“No words could possibly contain all he has to say. He manages to utter, at last, I'm okay, and this is enough for now.”

— Lauren Groff

“There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.”

— Alexander McCall Smith