Words Quotes
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
John McGahern
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
Liu Xiaobo
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
Adam Driver
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
Samuel Beckett
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
Pat Buckley
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They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.
Anthony Burgess
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
Ramez Naam
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And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.
Walter de La Mare
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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
John Wycliffe
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
Taylor Swift
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
Chester Bennington
Stone Temple Pilots
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
Eddie Redmayne
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We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.
Ray Manzarek
The Doors
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
Roy H. Williams
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Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.
Frederick William Faber
