#word

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? ↗

— Robert Browning

#deeds #fail #i #men #strive

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#once #own #printed #their #words

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. ↗

— Montserrat Caballe

#automatically #experiences #feels #music #ring

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#career #doing #felt #i #i love

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#pen #sharp #short #sword #than

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#blessed #carry #glimpse #heart #heaven

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#bread #every #god #live #man

His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married. ↗

— John Corry

#inseparably #joined #just #married #music