expression difficulty Quotes

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

'Monstress' has been hard because I want to keep writing longer, but I can't.

I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

I'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

But what can you say in a letter?

What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

We all had to search for more words to describe things.