Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.