Adjectives Quote by Susan Griffin

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I…

— Lily King

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so…

— R. S. Thomas

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace…

— Martin Millar

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

— Anonymous

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

— Virginia Woolf

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

Sometimes the smallest of words can make a huge difference.

— Aqeb Fardeen

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're…

— Aaron Belz

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted down things…

— Susie Dent

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is…

— Francine Prose

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

— Ben Schott