Captivating Language Quotes

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying.

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way—(1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested