Language Quote by Carmen Laforet Download Open image “I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.” — Carmen Laforet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Narrative Storytelling Thread Writing
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words! — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better. — Ashley Williams Copy Share Image
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too. — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I had to smile to myself. In only a day or two, life seemed different from the way I'd always conceived of it. Complicated… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
“Llegaba a mi casa, de la que ninguna invitación a un veraneo maravilloso me iba a salvar, de vuelta de mi primer baile en… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
“Porque entonces era lo suficientemente atontada para no darme cuenta que aquél era uno de los infinitos hombres que nacen sólo para sementales y… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then. — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
“What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings!” — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
