Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Like a summer storm, the ferment quickly passed,moving from explosive turmoil to exhausted calm in a few seconds.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Understand that fire fought with fire does only increase the heat.”

— Raphael Zernoff

“The word is a flame burning in a dark glass.”

— Sheila Watson

“When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into…

— Arthur Golden

“Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as I leave…

— James Rumford

“...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.”

— Stanley Fish

“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.”

— Ho Tzu Nyen

“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.”

— Gillian Marchenko

“The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It is the stillest words which bring the storm.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until…

— Louise Erdrich

“The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.”

— Cleopatra Mathis