Excessive Language Quotes

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.