Wordplay Quotes

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. (Julio Cortázar)
The levelling of inflexion and of wordplay became part of the program of applied knowledge in the seventeenth century. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
All ways of expressing ourselves are good if they make us understood. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. View quote
Joseph Joubert
I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it. View quote
Greg Behrendt
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. View quote
Marisha Pessl
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies. View quote
Clive Owen
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that. View quote
St. Vincent (musician)
In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator. View quote
Suman Pokhrel