Language Quote by Sylvan Barnet Download Open image ““Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”” — Sylvan Barnet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Writing advice Writing process Writing-books
“Seriously, deleting IS writing. It's not only adding words that count, cutting does too!” — Diem Burden Copy Share Image
“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.” — Rebecca James Copy Share Image
“You cannot use a word properly if you don’t know precisely what it means.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“If all that you’re doing is going off at the mouth, a pound of words won’t make an ounce of sense.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated their intentions… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
“Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.” — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
“We can say that Faustus makes a choice, and that he is responsible for his choice, but there is in the play a suggestion—sometimes… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
