“Money was nice but it was not everything to the actor whose greatest joys were words, words, and words.”

“Everything started by a word and a word will end it all.”

“Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.”

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”

“Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.”

“The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words.”

“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.”
Litterae autem sunt indices rerum, signa verborum, quibus tanta vis est, ut nobis dicta absentium sine voce loquantur. Verba enim per oculos non per aures introducunt.

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

“To-day, whatever may annoy,
The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.”

“When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.”