Jon Richardson

I certainly tried to talk about less complex things, but I've had to accept that it's just not what I do. That isn't to say that my shows are depressing - they aren't. At least, I hope they aren't! The problem I have with stories about happy things is that they don't require any skill from a comic - they just repeat the details verbatim.

English Comedian

Elizabeth McCracken

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

American Author

Evan Osnos

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

American Journalist

Thomas Middleditch

I've spoken to people in Silicon Valley, and many times they have said to me, 'X storyline, or that thing that happened in your show - pretty much verbatim has happened to me.' And it's either identical or similar enough to be scary.

Canadian Actor

Chuck Palahniuk

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

American Novelist

John Henrik Clarke

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

Shepard Fairey

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

American Artist

Al Michaels

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

American Entertainer

James Herriot

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

British Writer

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

American Poet

Use 'verbatim' to show you're repeating someone's exact words, like citing a source.

Accurate Representation

'Verbatim' emphasizes the precision of what was said without any alterations.

Emphasis on Precision

Don't use 'verbatim' if summarizing or rephrasing; it's only for exact words.

Not for Paraphrasing

As an adverb, 'verbatim' indicates quoting someone with complete accuracy.

Quotation Accuracy

'Verbatim' is often used in legal, formal, or academic texts where preciseness is critical.

Legal and Formal

Using 'verbatim' as an adverb means there's no personal interpretation added.

No Interpretation

 place so since we were young we've been taught to listen with an analytical year and just record the headlines but for me that doesn't work I strive to capture every single word as it's being said now of course I fall short of verbatim and

To listen is to live PIPE...

 and no husband to back me up. Months of slow pay and no pay have decimated my credit. Bill collectors call constantly, reading verbatim from a script before expressing polite sympathy for my plight