Right Word Quotes

61 quotes by 49 authors

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Style means the right word. The rest matters little. — Jules Renard
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. — Edward Abbey
Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it… — Sally Schneider
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival. — Russel Honore
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect… — Mark Twain
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad
It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of… — Herbie Hancock
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity. — John Boyle O'Reilly
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta. For all her… — Jack Handey
What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to… — Rebecca Mead
All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and… — Prince William
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is… — Margaret Haddix
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to… — Rumer Godden
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it… — Harriet Doerr
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely.… — Saul Bellow
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. — Neil Gaiman

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