Heinrich Heine Quotes

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

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

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

I don't have a problem expressing myself.

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

By men's words we know them.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.

We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.