This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that…

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose…

— Vera Farmiga

I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

— Hope Edelman

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

— Yiyun Li

“I believe that to be an efficient writer, one must be able to write in more than one language. I know over seven languages.…

— Mitta Xinindlu

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

— Stephen King

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

— Elie Wiesel

“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those using it.…

— Louis Yako

“Deal with your readers that they are smart, and write a language that suits their intelligence. - How to write the best story-”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

“I told them this was their language, this English, this most marvellous and expressive cloak of meaning and imagination. This great, exclamatory, illuminating song,…

— A.A. Gill

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly