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"There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no."
"Without emotion, all thoughts or words are powerless."
"We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors."
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."
"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."
"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."
"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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