Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
You have to fall in love with hanging around words.
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.
Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.
Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.
What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
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.
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.
[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
Gujaratis are really cute people, and I find Gujarati to be a very sweet language.
