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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: editing, on-writing
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    “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
    ― James Michener
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: great-writing, on-writing, stories, storytelling
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    John Green
    “He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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  • #6
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
    tags: poetry, power-of-words
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  • #8
    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: writing
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  • #9
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
    tags: arguments, family, marriage, relationships
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  • #10
    Ingrid Bergman
    “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
    ― Ingrid Bergman
    tags: kiss, love, nature, trick, words
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  • #11
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”
    ― Charles Schulz
    tags: fitness, peanuts
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  • #12
    Henry Rollins
    “Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”
    ― Henry Rollins, Smile, You're Traveling
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Dave Barry
    “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: business, humor, meetings, work
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  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
    ― Robert Frost
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  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: words
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    George Orwell
    “A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: on-writing, writing
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  • #18
    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: literature, reading, words
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  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: poetry
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  • #20
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: attitude, perspective
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    W.H. Auden
    “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
    ― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
    tags: language, poetry, words
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    Mark Twain
    “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: remaining-silent, reticence
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  • #23
    Thomas A. Edison
    “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
    ― Thomas Edison
    tags: inspirational, wise-words
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: books, literature, meaning, power, words
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    William Luce
    “Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”
    ― William Luce, The Belle of Amherst
    tags: emily-dickinson, light
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  • #27
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Lemony Snicket
    “In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor, life, love, misheard-words
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  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: c-s-lewis, till-we-have-faces, writing, writing-craft
    384 likes

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  • #30
    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: writing
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  • #31
    Mark Twain
    “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: on-writing
    303 likes



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