Language Quote by J.D. Salinger

“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. And I needed to use my words…

— Jennifer Armentrout

“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie

“He was very tall, with long arms and legs that would be gawky and awkward on anyone else, but were graceful and elegant on…

— Donna Kauffman

“He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was capable of…

— Paulo Coelho

“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only…

— William Faulkner

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing…

— Chris Nicolaisen

“This gave him another opportunity to use one of those words that hung before him, shining and alluring. Far away in the distance there…

— Tarjei Vesaas

“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He…

— Katherine Rundell

“He was bellowing a great many words that were new to Mosca and sounded quite interesting. She memorized them for future use.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity…

— Will Schwalbe