I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That's the only difference between Chris Christie and I - he's a little shy.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.