#Words

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."

"I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page."

"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."

"Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it."

"And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!"

"My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass."

"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."

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."

"When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song was about them - say it was a girl. I could write this song about how I feel about this girl, I could play it to them. I just loved it, because all of the words would speak to them. I could see them slowly falling in love with me."

"In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action."

"A picture is a poem without words."

"The word very will vary in muchiness. I love you very much, and that won’t vary from day to day."

"How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

"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."

"To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist."