Leandra Medine Quotes

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

I love words.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Words are my life.

I grew up with a love of words.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I love writing different things.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

I'm a real big fan of words.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

I love my books.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

I love playing with words and texture.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Words make love with one another.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

I've loved reading all my life.