Body Quote by Fernando Pessoa

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

— Rickie Lee Jones

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it…

— Margaret Haddix

I have fun with words.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to…

— Kate DiCamillo

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also…

— Geoffrey Rush

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when…

— Claudia Rankine

For me, words are just words, nothing else

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words…

— Marti Noxon

“I’m a writer; I can float for hours on a word like “amethyst” or “broom” or the way so many words sound like what…

— Katha Pollitt

For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my…

— Ingrid Bengis

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're…

— Aaron Belz

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer…

— Alasdair Gray