Yance Ford Quotes

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.

Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if it isn't figurative or metaphorical, what is it? It's literal: there's no substitute.

When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.

I have composed too much.

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.

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

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.