Language Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

— Anne Rice

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 find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely…

— Hunter S. Thompson

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

— James Joyce

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Stephen Fry

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The way you write affects what you say.

— Norman Mailer

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

— John Grisham

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

— Stephen Chbosky