3,439 Quotes About Words

As a writer, I roll around in words the way cats roll around in catnip.

A reader [is] a time traveler.

Lost in thoughts that refuse to become words.

Words are partly thoughts, but mostly they’re music, deep down. Thinking itself is, perhaps, orchestral, the mind conducting the world. Conducting it, constructing it.

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an updraught.

Now the deceivers want me to believe that words on paper and images on a screen are more real than life itself.

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One touch can say more than all the world’s words, that’s true, but the touch fades with the years and then we need words again, they’re our weapons against time, death, forgetfulness, unhappiness.