James Russell Lowell Quotes

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Well-written words are music.

Remarks are not literature.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

If you can talk, you can write.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.