„I don’t like the word “allegorical”, I don’t like the word “symbolic”, the word I really like is “mythic” and people always think that means “full of lies” when what it really means is full of a truth that cannot be told in any other way but a story.“

— William Golding

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„I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.“
— Jack Kerouac
„The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.“
— David Bowie