“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
