Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear.… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears… — Sami Michael Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
