The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
Daniel QuinnWhat you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. HodgeStichwörter: words actions teaching quotes teach impressions speaking
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.
Elizabeth J. KolodziejStichwörter: words music writing writers-block
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.
Maggie StiefvaterStichwörter: words thinking thoughts stay
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris PasternakStichwörter: words reading books literature
What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her--as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.
Patricia A. McKillipStichwörter: words thorns brambles tangled
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]
Stichwörter: words reading books writing literature
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: words
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
Criss JamiStichwörter: words writing speech expression artist conversation poet writer shy songwriting introvert incoherence coherence
There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...
Criss JamiStichwörter: imagination words learning poetry writing vision silence stories literature expression creativity emotion skill gift development deaf paper silent blind master hearing mute gifted building-up compression exceptional
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