#Words

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

"Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm."

"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."

"I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time."

"The words I love you form an oral floral phrase that's so fragrant it can overpower even the most flagrantly foul-mouthed utterance."

"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland."

"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."

"The menu is not the meal."

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

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

"All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it."

"It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in."

"Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa'yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo."

"George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words."

"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."

"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]"

"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."

"Words of love, are works of love."