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

  Griffin Dunne

  Mets, Wells, Mcqueen

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• Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

  Alex Chilton

  Years, Trying, Sometimes

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• Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points

  Yoshiko Sakurai

  Hurt, Love Is, Helping

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• Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

  Neil Gaiman

  One Word

  "Your rules for writing" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• 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.

  James Salter

  Writing, Ideas, Effort

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

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• I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Writing, Phrases, Stones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Guidance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• 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

  Trying, Feels, Playing Around

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• All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

  Prince William

  Kings, Stories, Want

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• 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

  Age, Moments, Not Happy

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• People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Leadership, People, Mouths

  "Anna Deveare Smith Tackles Health Care". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 26, 2009.

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• I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.

  Arthur Hailey

  Writing, Weather, Track

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• People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Fun, Lying, Book

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Apr 24, 2013

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• Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Men, Beats, Said

  Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Law, Tunes

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon

  Lori Handeland

  War, Heart, Moon

  Lori Handeland (2016). “Crave the Moon”, p.149, Lori Handeland

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• Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Giving, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• Be honest, how hideous do I look?" He took another step back and pursed his lips. "That bad, huh?" I muttered. No, no Bella. Actually. . ." He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look. . .sexy." I laughed out loud. "Right." Very sexy, really.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sexy, Struggle, Looks

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• 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.

  Sarah Dessen

  Knowing, Perfect, Together

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• Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mistake, Important, Be Kind

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• There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Havens

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.61, St. Martin's Press

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• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

  Haruki Murakami

  Confused, Talking, Two

  Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

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• I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hands, Dreamer, Ironic

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• Look! You got sparklies like akri. He gives all of his to me. He say I look beautiful in sparklies, ‘specially them red ones that match my eyes. Here, Astrid. I know you can’t see it, Astrid, but it’s very lovely, like you. You need to wear that and then you have sparklies, too. But still no hornays. We need to fix you up with hornays one day so you can be a demon, too. It’s fun being a demon – except when people try to exercise you…Wait, that’s not the right word. I forget, but you know what I mean. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Fun, Mean

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• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Habit, Miles, Plus

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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