Charm Quote by Dorothy Osborne

Letters should be easy and natural.

— Bill Vaughan

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit putting on…

— Kory Stamper

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

— Terry Pratchett

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

— John Locke

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

— George Herbert

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura