#word

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#deep #impression #leave #thousand #thousand words

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. ↗

— Paul Auster

#loneliness #paper #words #writer #writing

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #newborn #secret #soul #waiting

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#life

Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. ↗

— prixie

#describe #enjoy #enough #life #live

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best. ↗

— Tad Williams

#words #life

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#escape #literature #reading #words #life

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character. ↗

— Lisa See

#about #because #character #characters #create

Life happened because I turned the pages. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#literature #reading #words #life

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#life #speech #words #writing #life