It's a literary thought and it's written on a door -- two of the things I like best in all the world. Roughly translated - very roughly - it means Words are arrows for the Indians, which is a wonderfully vivid metaphor for the power of language, filled with speed and flight and with a little edge to it. How often is language used as a weapon? Too often, perhaps, but in terms of fiction, words used aggressively, freighted with ungovernable emotion, are words that register and hit home.
To help you explore how this may work in your own writing, have a go at something that is combatative, rousing and intense -- something which allows you to show feelings running high: it could be a piece of polemic, as learning to put across an argument while retaining a sense of passion will help you in structuring longer pieces of writing, or it could be a piece of fiction. Whatever you choose, throw yourself into it -- it doesn't matter if it's messy, you can address that later. Be untrammelled; don't hold back.
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