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  • Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

    Patrick Rothfuss

  • He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

    Markus Zusak

  • Some people have a way with words, and other people…oh, uh, not have way.

    Steve Martin

  • A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

    Italo Calvino

  • Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

    Rudyard Kipling

  • You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

    Annie Proulx

  • She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

    Annie Dillard

  • Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

    Aldous Huxley

  • Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.

    John Greenleaf Whittier

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