#words

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#being #called #claim #could #deep

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#absurdity #deeper #experience #in other words #meaning

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#give #happen #must #out #rhyming

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up. ↗

— George Clooney

#guy #jack #kid #last #name

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. ↗

— Jack Vance

#checks #enormous #gotten #haven #i

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish

Poetry: the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#best #order #words

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#back #because #bit #bothered #classroom

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself. ↗

— Angela Carter

#i #image #in other words #intimately #knew