- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
- I Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write a thousand words a day.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that it can be really difficult to read about your own life... in someone else's words.
- Digestive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020