Basic Quote by James Houston Download Open image “Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.” — James Houston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basic Language Tools Words Writer Writing You
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you… — James Houston Copy Share Image
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of… — Johanna Siguroardottir Copy Share Image
