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

If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.

I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.

You just gotta back up your words. Don't be scared from it, or don't shy from it.

I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.

In the end, all we need to remember is Slavisa has promoted a club from the Championship to the Premier League and has managed sides at the highest level of football. In other words, Slavisa is exactly the head coach we need.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

It means so much to be a part of bringing James Baldwin's words to life.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.

I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.