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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.
— Anthony Marais
I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
— Kerry Greenwood
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.
— Robert Breault
Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. — Aldous Huxley
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. — Aldous Huxley
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
— Paul Johnson
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
The true poem rests between the words.
— Vanna Bonta
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
— Joseph Joubert
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
— Miriam Elia
I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
— E.L. Doctorow
Her words dance on the page.
— A.D. Posey
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
— Mo Willems
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
— Bell Hooks
May the words ever flow!
— Anna Dobritt
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
— Norman Cousins
When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive?
— Sage Francis
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
— Dave Barry
Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.
— Fennel Hudson
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
— Sharon Biggs Waller
With words...one can cut & kill:but also one can cure and heal.
— Darrius Garrett
People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
— Chuck Wendig
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
— Coventry Patmore
Writing to please all tastes is like cooking without seasoning...
— Nanette L. Avery
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
— Jacques Barzun
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words
— Christian Michael
A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window.
— Fennel Hudson
Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
— W. H. Auden
Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave.
— William H Gass
A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.
— Carol Morgan
Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
— Pippa Evans
Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.
— Nora DeLoach
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
— Jamaica Kincaid
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
What mattered was writing it: the act of words.
— Rose Tremain
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
— Stephen King
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
— Alasdair Gray
People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.
— Genesis Quihuis
Omit needless words.
— William Strunk Jr.
That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.
— Tim Seeley
And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words
— Jojo Moyes
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
— Caron Kamps Widden
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
— Baron De Montesquieu
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
— Terry Brooks
Our words must seem to be inevitable.
— William Butler Yeats
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
— Antonin Artaud
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.
— Lizzy Grimm
Written words are divine footprints on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.
— Jillian Hervey
A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.
— Jason E. Hodges
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
— Sara Sheridan
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
— Darynda Jones
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
— Elena Ferrante
Be daring to push your ideas forward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
— Chris Matakas
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
— Anthony Liccione
Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.
— Brian Holguin
The words come at my call but who calls whom?
— Jeanette Winterson
There is more to writing than playing with words.
— Marty Rubin
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.
— Richard Flanagan
So little of what anything means comes through words.
— Andre Alexis