Finding the Right Words Quotes

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

The script [of Regression] wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro [Amenabar] and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.

It's hard for me to articulate myself.

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.