#Words

"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind."

"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

"A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words."

"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

"We live and breathe words."

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

"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."

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

"Words are truly the image of the soul."

"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."

"Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way."

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

"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."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."

"When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less."

"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."

"I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them."

"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"

"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."