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I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that…

— Judy Blundell

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

— Brian Chippendale

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of…

— William Shakespeare

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

— Lydia Davis

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

— Damian Loeb

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.

— Mike Birbiglia

I built up a luminous vocabulary so I could educate the masses.

— Bob Backlund

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

— Ted Alexandro

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to…

— Abraham Maslow