Bites Quote by Jonathan Swift

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need…

— Maya Lin

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

— Stephen Fry

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

— Bell Hooks

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

— John Grisham

Quite often people ask me 'Is there a word for... ' and go on to highlight a gap in our language that we need…

— Susie Dent

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

— Courtney Barnett

If I have some extra words and I'm trying to make it fit into that shape, then I just sort of take out the…

— Helen Frost

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

— Nandan Nilekani

The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

— Etgar Keret

“I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and…

— Michael Marshall Smith