Masiela Lusha Quotes

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

I'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.

The way you write affects what you say.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.