Wordsmithing Quotes

“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”
― Lauren Willig

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”
― Amy Joy

“though romantic, he was singularly methodical and detested nothing so much as a ball of string on the floor”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“We must assume, I think, that the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of all its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of an amputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skipspace piece), standing on a marginal file, "feels" in phantom extensions beyond the board, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“We must assume, I think, that
the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of
all its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of an
amputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skips-pace piece), standing on a marginal file, "feels" in phantom extensions beyond the
board, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“When words become weapons, reputations go to trial.”
― Olawale Daniel, Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits