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Conveying Quotes

Getting the message across is its own art.

Writers and speakers here argue that facts alone rarely land. One novelist admits fiction was never built for delivering information cleanly; it's built for Good stories that carry truth sideways.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Quotes by Adam Levine

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to...

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about...

Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's...

Quotes by Richard Greenberg

Believe Quotes

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of...

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

Quotes by Maajid Nawaz

I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.

Quotes by Karl Iagnemma

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some...

Quotes by Jon Lovett

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Quotes by Jerry B. Jenkins

Good Quotes

Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of...

Quotes by Frank Miller

So, when you train no-gi all the time, the no-gi style evolves quicker, twice as fast. Especially, the way we do it at 10th Planet, I am not just the one conveying the knowledge. All my students are involved.

Quotes by Eddie Bravo

You have to love Dr. Seuss to take on the responsibility of conveying his work in animation or any medium.

Quotes by Chris Meledandri

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.

Quotes by Chris Milk

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Quotes by Carmine Giovinazzo

Great Quotes

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

Quotes by Brian Reynolds Myers

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Quotes by Angel Haze

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

Quotes by Amy Chua

Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is...

Quotes by Alan Mulally

Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.

Quotes by Aja Naomi King

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on this conveying page?
These are quotes about the craft of getting an idea, feeling, or piece of information across clearly, whether through fiction, a speech, or a translated text.
Why do people search for quotes about conveying ideas?
Writers, speakers, and students often look for language that captures how hard it is to communicate well, not just to have good ideas but to actually land them with an audience.
Is there a quote about fiction versus facts?
Yes. One novelist admits fiction isn't built for delivering clean information; its real strength is in telling stories that carry a truth sideways, which readers absorb differently than a plain fact would.
Does a quote here talk about giving a good speech?
One does, noting that being lyrical or rhetorically gifted only goes so far; a speech that just delivers a message well isn't the same as one that actually accomplishes something with it.
What other quote pages relate to this theme?
The Good and Great quote pages both touch on similar ideas about craft and getting something right, if you want to keep exploring.

A second voice separates rhetorical polish from actually accomplishing something with a speech. However complicated the narrative gets, these quotes agree that conveying an idea well takes more Know-how than just speaking it aloud.