“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said”— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org
“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.”— Hazrat Inayat Khan, amazon.com
“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“Because when words are written with feelings and the soul, they do not forget that their destination is the ocean of a text, and that sooner or later they have to arrive there.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“Every word leaves a memory in your heart – and it the sum of these memories that form sentences, paragraphs, books.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“The word is the final intention of someone who wishes to share something with his neighbor.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”— John Fowles, amazon.com
“Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”— Tom Clancy, amazon.com
“For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”— Flannery O’Connor, amazon.com