Quotes of: Right-words Keyword

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The Books of Magic

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry

Bricks could be used as words in the saying of a mason. When words and actions match up, you have a structure people could live in. It's a lot to live up to, and a lot to live in. 

Brick

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Ben Katchor

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Aleph

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

after the quake

Word of mouth—it’s more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.

Improper Pleasure

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Itsy's Ugly

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

Rise of the Morningstar

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Rise of the Morningstar

A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

Smog City

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

The Name of the Wind

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia