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'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one. Kathryn Harrison

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Joseph Conrad

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

Robert Littell

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

Eva Braun

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Kathleen Battle

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

Richard Simmons

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

Margaret Haddix

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

Nancy Kress

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Griffin Dunne

'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.

Kathryn Harrison

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

Sally Schneider

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Neil Gaiman

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Peter Singer

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

Samantha Harvey

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Russel Honore

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Steve Martin

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

Mila Kunis

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

John Boyle O'Reilly