When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. – William Shakespeare
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain
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. – C.S. Lewis
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. – Theodore Dreiser
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make. – Truman Capote
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. – Author Unknown
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. – Baltasar Gracián
He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. – John Ray
There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. – William Makepeace Thackeray
