Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter
Yesterday's Songs
Song lyrics, On the Way to the Sky (1981)
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British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot a… 1916–1990Related quotes
“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
Salon interview (1996)
Context: When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language. Most people in India are multilingual, and if you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.
“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”
Daniel H. Wilson book Robopocalypse
Source: Robopocalypse
“"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."”
Ian McDonald book River of Gods
Source: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 19 (p. 239).
“Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
“We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958) English poet and author
On the realization that he was a poet in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists
“Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around
Context: Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.
Naomi Shihab Nye (1952) American writer
Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven