Language Quote by Rachel Held Evans

“Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, We write, write, write, Without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now.”

— Anton Chekhov

“The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.”

— Maya Angelou

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

“My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.”

— Patti Smith

“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into…

— R. W. Patterson

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Between you and me, the words, like mortar, separating, holding together those pieces of the structure ourselves. To say them, to cast their shadows…

— Roger Zelazny

“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid…

— Kate Morton

“But I found out then, and never have forgotten since, that we never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we…

— Mark Twain

“Sentences take shape from the words that are stacked on top of one another in the dusty chambers of my mind, waiting to be…

— Minka Pradelski

“Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word…

— Mika Waltari