She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Michael OndaatjeTags: words
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.
Ayn RandTags: words
And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.
Anne RiceTags: words
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
Rebecca WellsShe had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
Tad WilliamsA man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman MelvilleHis library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.
Ray Bradbury[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.
Ray BradburyDon't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel JohnsonTags: words language importance exaggeration
I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.
Markus ZusakTags: words books death the-book-thief
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