Language Quote by W.H. Auden

“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.”

— Jenny Hayworth

“Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.”

— Confucius

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

— Ambrose Bierce

“I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power. The positive and negative affect on…

— Steven L. Hiller

“not just words, but words that carry the force of the state.”

— Joel P. Trachtman

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

— Larry Brooks

“Words have the power to shoot down or raise up. Sharp cutting words can whirl for years.”

— Louise M. Wisechild

“I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead. When something…

— Moyra Davey

“Why do words mean so much and yield so much power, yet so little thought often goes into them before they are released." ~…

— Jill Thrussell

“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. .

— Ritu Ghatourey

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson