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The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. — Gore Vidal

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. — Amish Tripathi

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. — John Irving

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. — Taylor Momsen

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong. — William Monahan

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white. — G. Willow Wilson

But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm — Meg Wolitzer

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive. — Edmund Wilson

It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it. — Charlene Vermeulen

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism. — Michael York

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. — Harrison Birtwistle

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. — Jonathan Lethem

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. — Aleister Crowley

Writing poetry is a state of free float — Margaret Atwood

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. — Anurag Shourie

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for. — Jacques Barzun

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. — Vladimir Nabokov

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End — Ken Scott

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin

We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood. — Anthony Marra

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. — Claire Danes

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language. — Hilaire Belloc

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work. — Ilsa J. Bick

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. — Erin McKean

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. — Elmore Leonard

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first. — Jon Secada

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. — Richard Hugo

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly. — Debasish Mridha

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. — Mark Twain

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had. — Nell Zink

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. — Rainbow Rowell

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. — John Osborne

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it. — Ruby Bentall

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. — Oscar Wilde

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. — Tony Dungy

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. — Joseph Conrad

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. — David Bezmozgis

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. — H.L. Mencken

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. — Anton Chekhov

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. — Simon Heffer

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora

The most original novelist now writing in English. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. — Mark Twain

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache. — John Patrick Lowrie

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming. — Thomas Mars

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things. — Vanna Bonta

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. — P.D. James

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ... — Henry James

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. — Lillian Hellman