#words

Omit needless words. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#omit #words

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#here #made #mean #point #same

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#apply #going #good #good reason #i

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#best #contain #germ #much #them

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#learning #nothing #wind #words

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#places #proper #proper places #style #true

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chilly #conjure #could #feelings #had

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

#apart #knower #knowing #manner #neither

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#being #had #i #meanings #never

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#declare #men #same #thoughts #words