They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.
Raymond Floyd
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that... →
Dario Fo
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
Jonathan Safran Foer
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities... →
Joshua Foer
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Ken Follett
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the... →
Jane Fonda
I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?
Peter Fonda
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words... →
Shelby Foote