Quotes About Using Too Many Words

#1. I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that's why I like flash fiction, it's a lot like using a shotgun.

Neil Leckman

#3. The manuscript is not the story." It took me a minute to get that the first time I heard it, so I'll say it again: The manuscript is not the story. The manuscript is where we put down the words we're using to tell the story; it is not the story itself.

Bridget McKenna

#4. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

David Lee Roth

#5. The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Thiruvalluvar

#6. He doesn't know if the words they are using actually mean the things they purport to mean or whether the words have taken on a new significance. They are talking about nothing, after all. And yet these words, these nothings, are all they have, and he wishes there were whole dictionaries of them.

Rachel Joyce

#7. Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.

Jacqueline Winspear

#8. I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

Gia Coppola

#9. This place is very bushy," I said, using words to describe things.

Jenny Lawson

#10. You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

S.I. Hayakawa

#11. In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.

Jack Kerouac

#12. Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#13. Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

John Darnielle

#14. Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#15. White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

Andrea Tantaros

#16. Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Star Jones

#17. But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Mark A. Rayner

#18. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#21. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Kim Edwards

#22. 127. Craft a poem about sadness and darkness but using only positive words.

Ryan Andrew Kinder

#23. I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

Jim Gaffigan

#24. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#25. I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Woodrow Wilson

#26. You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Eartha Kitt

#27. People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!

Honeya

#28. Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#29. Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Travis J. Dahnke

#30. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

Patrick Rothfuss

#31. Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Joseph Sobran

#32. A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born ... in poetry.

Cecil Day-Lewis