English Quote by Ann Medlock

“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.”

— Chinua Achebe

“For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We…

— Matt Haig

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we write, we…

— Ahdaf Soueif

“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.”

— Lavie Tidhar

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

— Saad Ireland

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.”

— Joël Dicker

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto yours. But”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”

— Nataly Kelly