Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

C.S. Lewis

Tag: words writing-advice



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My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

W.S. Merwin

Tag: words poetry



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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Craig Claiborne

Tag: words writing on-writing



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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Arundhati Roy

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On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

Marcel Proust

Tag: words reading books literature



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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E.M. Forster

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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Alberto Manguel

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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

A.S. Byatt

Tag: words letters



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