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“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”

— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, Share via Whatsapp

“Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.”

— Edmond Manning, King Perry, Share via Whatsapp

“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”

— Amit Ray, Share via Whatsapp

“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”

— Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun, Share via Whatsapp

“The act of order (in a sentence) is also an act of creative limitation”

— Monaristw, Share via Whatsapp

“Words are loneliness.”

— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Share via Whatsapp

“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”

— Haruki Murakami , South of the Border, West of the Sun, Share via Whatsapp

“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”

— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red, Share via Whatsapp

“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”

— Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl, Share via Whatsapp

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ”

— Herman Melville, Share via Whatsapp

“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, Share via Whatsapp

“Words have weight.”

— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Share via Whatsapp

“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”

— Carol Ann Duffy, Share via Whatsapp

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet, Share via Whatsapp

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

— Rudyard Kipling, Share via Whatsapp

“For last year s words belong to last year s language And next year s words await another voice.”

— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Share via Whatsapp

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, Share via Whatsapp