wordsmith Quotes

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

word thrower … phrase maker

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.