Conveying Ideas Quotes

I've said all that I've had to say.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

Words can be an act of reductionism.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.

My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.

Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.