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What writers and others say<\/h2>\n

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“The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects \u2014 nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs \u2014 ball them together and make them bounce.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Maya Angelou, poet, writer and educator<\/h6>\n
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“Why isn’t ‘phonetic’ spelled the way it sounds?”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 The Atomic Caf\u00e9<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“You can taste a word.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Pearl Bailey, American popular singer<\/h6>\n
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“When you write, you make a sound in the reader’s head. It can be a dull mumble \u2014 that’s why so much government prose makes you sleepy \u2014 or it can be a joyful noise, a sly whisper, a throb of passion.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Russell Baker, U.S. columnist and journalist<\/h6>\n
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“Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon thoughts, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Lord Byron, notorious Romantic poet and satirist<\/h6>\n
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“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Eddie Cantor, American comedian, singer, actor, songwriter<\/h6>\n
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“I’ve known all my life that I could take a bunch of words and throw them up in the air and they would come down just right.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Frank Moore Colby, American encyclopedia editor and essayist<\/h6>\n
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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet<\/h6>\n
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“Words are free born, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing, as the dew drops have to sparkle, and the stars to shine.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Abraham Coles, author, in The Evangel<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“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.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Hart Crane, modern American poet<\/h6>\n
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“How lovely are the wiles of words.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Emily Dickinson, prolific American poet<\/h6>\n
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“To speak of ‘mere words’ is much like speaking of ‘mere dynamite.’”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 C. J. Ducasse, French-born professor of Philosophy at Brown University<\/h6>\n
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“Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry it from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Richard Eder, literary critic<\/h6>\n
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“All the fun\u2019s in how you say a thing.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet<\/h6>\n
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“If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Sam Horn, author, POP! Stand Out In Any Crowd<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“If they can\u2019t repeat it, they didn\u2019t get it.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Sam Horn, author, POP! Stand Out In Any Crowd<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Sam Horn, author, POP! Stand Out In Any Crowd<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Words that roll off the tongue stay in the brain.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Sam Horn, author, POP! Stand Out In Any Crowd<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Words are the hummingbirds of the imagination.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Elbert Hubbard, American writer, editor and printer<\/h6>\n
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“In the beginning was the Word.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 John 1: 1<\/h6>\n
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“I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer, critic, and conversationalist<\/h6>\n
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“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Ezra Pound, American modernist poet<\/h6>\n
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“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Tom Stoppard, English playwright<\/h6>\n
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“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Mark Twain, American author and wit<\/h6>\n
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“What’s another word for Thesaurus<\/em>?”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Steven Wright, American actor, writer and stand-up comedian<\/h6>\n
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“Words and words and words, how they gallop \u2014 how they lash their long manes and tails.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Virginia Woolf, British author<\/h6>\n
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