Absolutes Quote by Quintilian

Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave…

— Kyo Maclear

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. .

— Ritu Ghatourey

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy

— Carol Ann Duffy

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

— Virginia Woolf

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

— Henry Watson Fowler

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at…

— Elizabeth I

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

— Joseph Joubert

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

— Mary McCarthy

All I know is what I have words for.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual.…

— Dave Matthews

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according…

— Joshua Foer

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram