I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.
All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.
I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.
Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'
