Rich Vocabulary Quotes

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.

People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.