Amos Oz Quotes

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.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Content dictates form and style.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Remarks are not literature.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I love writing different things.

I love playing with words and texture.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Writing is a communication.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.

I have always, always loved words.