Born Quote by Isaac Babel

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible…

— Isaac Babel

“The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets…

— Hermann Hesse

Doing is the evolution of saying.

— Bill Loguidice

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

— H. G. Wells

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public…

— Agnes Repplier

New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

— Patience Strong

I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written,…

— Teju Cole

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

— Caroline Gordon

I always surprise myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are, in my not so humble opinion, the most inexhaustible source of…

— JK Rowling

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

— Katy Lederer