Words Quotes

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

James Howe
- Up
- Writing
- Growing
I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

Bob Ehrlich
- Words

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia
- Words
- Poetry
- Roots
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Taylor Swift
- Poetry
- Lyrics
- Page
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

Antonio Damasio
If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.

Mary Lambert
- Beautiful
- Words
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips
- Character
- Words
I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'

Fred Willard
- People
- Good
- Done