Top 91 Quotes About Wordplay
#1. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.
Nayvadius Cash
#2. And spare me the jokes about scoring."
"Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?"
"It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts."
"So, ninety-five percent of the time.
Cassandra Clare
#3. I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#4. I loved Monty Python for the wordplay
this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.
George Saunders
#5. Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
Julio Cortazar
#6. We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.
Milton William Cooper
#7. One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
St. Vincent
#8. I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
Marisha Pessl
#9. I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.
Greg Behrendt
#10. Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen
#11. Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.
Tim Federle
#12. When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay
Elijah Cainaan
#13. I think a man's "wordplay" can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!
Junnita Jackson
#14. Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.
Nayvadius Cash
#15. The reality is that dying isn't bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I know that sounds like a contradiction, or maybe just wordplay. What it really is, it turns out, is a matter of perspective.
- David Foster Wallace "Good Old Neon" (2004)
David Foster Wallace
#16. The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.
Graeme Base
#17. In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.
Matthea Harvey
#18. And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.
Lee Gutkind
#19. You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
Clive Owen
#20. Poststructuralism ... is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
Naomi Wolf
#21. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
Joseph Joubert
#22. I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.
Joe Budden
#23. I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.
Kendrick Lamar
#24. In his book, Samuelson grabs hold of Smith's wordplay and freebases meaning from it until a mere metaphor mutates into the economic doctrine that would define the shape and form of global finance for the remainder of the century, and beyond.
Anonymous
#25. If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know."
"I know," Klause said.
"I know you know," Violet said
Lemony Snicket
#29. Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves
Lewis Carroll
#30. These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.
Stefanos Livos
#31. (Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
Ringo Starr
#32. Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.
Alan Dapre
#34. That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Dorothy Parker
#35. Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile.
Zane Stumpo
#37. One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
Novalis
#38. Carrot, to whom the word irony meant something to do with metal, picked up his pike and after a couple of impressive rebounds managed to cut the cake into approximately four slices.
Terry Pratchett
#39. When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.
Natalya Vorobyova
#40. This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
[Women Know Everything!]
Dorothy Parker
#41. Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
David Scheier
#42. It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.
Neil Gaiman
#43. Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.
Jasper Fforde
#45. Ducking for apples
change one letter and it's the story of my life.
Dorothy Parker
#47. It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.
Django Wylie
#48. Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
Barbara Kingsolver
#49. He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.
Sara Sheridan
#50. Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.
Groucho Marx
#51. Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#52. I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen
#53. Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain
#56. Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.
Leslie Austin
#57. The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents
A.R. Ammons
#58. Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there were always more.
Salman Rushdie
#59. The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.
Sara Sheridan
#60. He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
Adam Young
#62. I'm just like any other person you can meet and greet on the street and like or not like. I'm not Holden or Humbert. You can really touch me! If you don't believe me, come to Aristod right now. Come hold and hump me!
Brian Celio
#63. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer ... I am a half-fast writer.
Robert Asprin
#64. Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Milton Berle
#67. Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck.
Anthony Burgess
#68. Our cadaverous cadre has been walking for little over a day ...
Isaac Marion
#71. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#73. Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!
Lewis Carroll
#74. Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!
James Joyce
#75. Wake up to think of words ... want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.
Initially NO
#76. Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun, suggested the duke.
Norton Juster
#77. Hate school but love school and threat it right so you can be where you love to be all right?
Mohlalefi J Motsima
#79. Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming.
Karen Joy Fowler
#80. Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.
Teresa Monachino
#81. The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread.
Jessica Fortunato
#82. Now me," said Mr. Vandemar.
"What number am I thinking of?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death.
Natalya Vorobyova
#87. If a UFO did land, and invite me onboard, I'd love to have the balls to go in. So, I search the skies for extra testicles.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#88. When they can hear each other over the wind and the music, they speak Connecticut: I will not Stamford this type of behavior. What's Groton into you? What did Danbury his Hartford? New Haven can wait. Darien't no place I'd rather I'd rather be.
David Levithan
#90. She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#91. Yes, I think he even has a title. He's like son and heir.'
I turned her words over in my mind as I pretended to play with my phone.
Sun and hair
Son and heir
Sun and air
Olivia Sudjic
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