Synonym Quote by Constance Hale Download Open image “Verbose is not a synonym for literary.” — Constance Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Synonym
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.". — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is,… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
