“A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.”
“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.”
“What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.”
“But words are more powerful than anything.”
“He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.”
“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”
“You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.”
“Words have power? That sounds like you re into some Harry Potter juju.”
“Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.”
“we only shout when we neglect what silence can do”
“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”
“That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap innto your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you peace, and change your life! (p.15)”
“If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.”
“Words shall not be hid nor spells buried might shall not sink underground though the mighty go.”