I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Patrick Rothfuss

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No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

Gregory Maguire

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Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa'yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo.

Bob Ong

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I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

John Burroughs

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Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

Helen Keller

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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Siri Hustvedt

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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

G.K. Chesterton

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Words have weight.

Stephen King

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I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Maggie Stiefvater

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