Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

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.'

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

When I speak, I am well articulated.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use the word 'like' every other word.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

Language is very important to me.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Did all this make sense?

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.