The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?
James SalterTag: words reading books literature
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: words writing book magic novel author richelle richelle-goodrich
I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: words reading writing inspirational-quotes stories authors reading-books richelle richelle-goodrich
I don’t believe in signs. I believe in words, and action, and doing. And what you’re doing is sitting and waiting and that is one hundred percent unacceptable.
Lauren BlakelyThomas loved words, particularly if he didn’t understand them.
Guus KuijerTag: words
You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity
The most modern European is you Pope Pius X
And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you
From entering a church and confessing this morning
You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud
That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers
There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries
Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines
("Zone")
Tag: words poetry church advertising language mysteries confession prose newspapers europe city modernity text european catalogs mystery-novels billboard headlines pope-pius-x
It is strange to hear my words
Read back to me.
I don't think I wrote them
To have them ever leave the page.
I think I only write
What happens across my brain
When my feet are too weary
To dance anymore.
Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?
Tag: words writing questions-in-life
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
RoopleenTag: wisdom life words judge goals success books love passion inspiration self-esteem world peace dreams courage patience faith victory hope daring trust determination triumph motivation attitude authors failure leadership self-confidence dare quotes competition famous publishing positive-thinking idea speaking successful inspire willpower coaching you-can-do-it connect never-give-up counseling motivator promo
As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the word has a new currency, it is probably not the currency I would wish for. The word's new lease of life is probably among manufacturers and retailers of sophomoric humor. I bet that even as I write, some adolescent boys, in the stairwell of some high school somewhere in America, are accusing each other of being niggardly, and sniggering at their own outrageous wit. I bet … Wait a minute. Sniggering? Oh, my God …
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