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She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" in the sky.
— Monique Duval
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
— Marianne Wiggins
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
— A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. — Minae Mizumura
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The shorter and the plainer the better.
— Beatrix Potter
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
— Matthea Harvey
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
— Vladimir Lenin
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
— Ron Jeffries
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.
— Anthony Marra
He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)
— Jeanette Winterson
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
— Carmen Boullosa
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
— Ernst Haas
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
— Jacques Derrida
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.
— Herbert Simon
Yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood... — John Geddes
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
— Joyce Carol Oates
There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.
— Robert Lane Greene
Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
— Lawrence Lessig
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions becomeand such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
— Helen Dunmore
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
Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.
— John Patrick Lowrie
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
— Joseph Brodsky
I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
— Georgann Low
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
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
— Elena Ferrante
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.
— Stephen D. Krashen
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
— David Bezmozgis
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
— Jack Prelutsky
I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.
— ZZ Packer
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
— Rita Mae Brown
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
— Jeffery Deaver
God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.
— Richard Brookhiser
The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine.
— Alison Croggon
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
— P.D. James
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
— Evelyn Waugh
Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.
— Elizabeth Winder
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing
— Bernard Kelvin Clive