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  • Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. -- Carol Ann Duffy
  • I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. -- Lizzo
  • Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. -- Jack Prelutsky
  • In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. -- Jacques Derrida
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated. -- Daniel Alarcon
  • When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive. -- C. K. Williams
  • Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. -- Patti Smith
  • Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers. -- Derek Bok
  • I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction. -- Billy Collins
  • Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access. -- Carol Windley
  • England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before. -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies. -- Laura Wade
  • For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. -- Marilyn Hacker
  • Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. -- June Jordan
  • Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. -- Lisa See
  • Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also. -- Nikki Giovanni
  • Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. -- David Crystal
  • Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it. -- Lisel Mueller
  • The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Dennis Ritchie
  • You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. -- John Green
  • A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates. -- Kathy Acker
  • Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. -- Lawrence Lessig
  • If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. -- Clifford Geertz
  • It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing. -- Nitin Sawhney
  • If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code -- Clifford Geertz
  • Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. -- Marjane Satrapi
  • Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. -- Christopher Isherwood
  • The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. -- Jacques Derrida
  • In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. -- Don DeLillo
  • 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
  • When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. -- David Bezmozgis
  • When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. -- Ron Jeffries
  • In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. -- Russell Baker
  • No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • 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
  • Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. -- Amish Tripathi
  • Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. -- Hilma Wolitzer
  • When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. -- Etgar Keret
  • If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation. -- Chris Crutcher
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself. -- Marjane Satrapi
  • Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins. -- Assia Djebar
  • New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind. -- Robert Greene
  • I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form. -- Will Self
  • The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. -- Robert Morgan
  • Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. -- Pat Conroy
  • 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
  • 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
  • No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. -- Marilyn Hacker
  • Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language. -- Holly Black
  • 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
  • If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. -- Lydia Davis
  • I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work. -- Lara Pulver
  • In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. -- Kim Edwards
  • We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings. -- Vittorio Storaro
  • 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
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