Quotes About Verbiage

#1. If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

Emma Donoghue

#2. Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.

Laurence D'Orsay

#3. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.

Italo Calvino

#4. I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Kathy Reichs

#5. Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Jeff Lindsay

#6. He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".

Bryce Courtenay

#7. Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.

Rosie O'Donnell

#8. The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

Andrew Loog Oldham

#9. [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

Anton Chekhov

#10. As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.

Leslie Parrish

#11. Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies
women must be skinny to be attractive and being attractive should be a priority
via the typical verbiage of female disempowerment.

Kim Socha

#12. I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

Larry Hagman

#13. He looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.

William Faulkner

#14. Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

Washington Irving

#15. Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website
much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive
and effective in their work.

Bruce Perens

#16. Everybody complains that politics separates words from their meanings, and this is part of the reason why. Words are useful, but often their meanings are not. Sometimes what you want is feeling rather than meaning, warmth rather than content. And that takes verbiage. The

Barton Swaim

#17. On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.

W. Edwards Deming

#18. The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

#20. People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.

Anne Enright

#21. You're the first girl I've ever fallen in love with, Ella, and you'll be the last girl I ever love

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

Jerry Harrison

#23. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies- all these are private and except through symbols and at second hand incommunicable.

Aldous Huxley

#24. Free markets select for winning solutions.

Eric S. Raymond