Three words Quote by Jo Baker

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

— Andy Rooney

“He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine,…

— Laura Z. Hobson

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,…

— John Ruskin

“He used three exclamation points? That kind of irresponsible punctuation must mean something's up.”

— Kerry Winfrey

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.”

— Paul Auster

“We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he…

— Jacques Barzun

“I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of…

— Kelley York

“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the…

— Monica Wood

“He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences could contain…

— Deborah Crombie

“He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.”

— Ayn Rand