Aperture Quote by Nancy Peters

“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal…

— Neil Gaiman

“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”

— Shabbeer Ahmed

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

— Edward Young

“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”

— Leslie Austin

“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

— Donald Barthelme

“Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could…

— Jules Verne

“subjects. Directions. CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS”

— Joseph Devlin

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One…

— Knut Hamsun

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me…

— Robert Herrick

“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did…

— Anita Nair

“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new…

— Remy de Gourmont