- "No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place."
(Isaac Babel)
- ''So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.''
(Dr. Seuss)
- '''She drives words into people as if they were nails.''
(Ronit Matalon)
- ''Words - so innocent and powerless as they are standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.'
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)