Gail Carson Levine Quotes

I'm a real big fan of words.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.

I love words.

I'm quite obsessed with 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.

I grew up with a love of words.

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

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.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.

I have always, always loved 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.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

I learned to love the feel of good words.