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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

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music. — T.L. Rese

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

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. — Paul Celan

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader. — John Updike

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

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. — June Jordan

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on. — Karl Kraus

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

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake. — Peter Levi

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become
and 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

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! — Gerry Abbey

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'. — Ambrose Bierce

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

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher

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