Quotes of: New-word Keyword

We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.

Silence Is A Song I Know All The Words To

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Three Bags Full

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

A Technique for Producing Ideas

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Oliver Twist

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.

Paris to the Moon

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Property Of

I couldn't believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer possessed.

Provocation: a lesson in trust

I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.

Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the Hell Up

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels....

And That’s Why I’m Single

Most kids start talking by age two. I didn't say a word until I was twelve. I was just angry and defiant I guess. My first word wasn't "Mom" or "Dad." It was "No.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Words are all we’ve got. Besides, of course, actions. But you can’t print out and read actions. Actions also don’t carry ideas with the same ease as words.

This Book Has No Title

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them.

The Word for World is Forest

Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

Write Naked

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.

The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

Orson Welles