Quotes

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity… Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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

Thoughts do more than anything else to make things happen.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

A single word can brighten the face of another.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

You can make anything by writing.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

We use words to hunt for truths we didn’t know we knew.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Ink and paper cannot be standardly replaced by anything, because a handwritten letter is a small piece of yourself you give to someone else.