Darryl Pinckney Quotes

Tone has the living soul.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

Tone is very important to me.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey, the bottom line is you have to understand me to understand hey.

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

Write what he means, not what he says.