Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.
For the first time in so long I kept my silence and decided to conceal the words in the aching crevices of my heart.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
