Language Quote by Alice McDermott

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

Language is the tool of the tools

— Lev S. Vygotsky

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

— Mary Pipher

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to…

— Leon Uris

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're…

— Aaron Belz

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part…

— Mary Pipher

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler