Depth Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

— Brian Froud

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

— Clark Coolidge

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

— Robert Barry

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

— Tim O'Brien

These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by.

— Fall Out Boy

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

— Peter De Vries

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

— Paulo Coelho

“VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy," "hugey," and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are…

— Amy Leach

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words…

— James Agee

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All I know is what I have words for.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein