• "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)