Accepting Quote by Doris Lessing

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

— Frederick Lenz

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly…

— Stuart Chase

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

— Gloria Naylor

“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.”

— Percival Everett

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

— Agatha Christie

The L word is sometimes hard to accept, hard to forget, damn near impossible to deny and yet so easy to say. No wonder…

— Nicole Hill

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations…

— Paul Kantner

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

— Gerry Spence

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

— Francis Bacon