Language Quote by Anthony Doerr

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted…

— Patrick Modiano

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over…

— Laurie Metcalf

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

— Wilson Follett

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

— Wole Soyinka

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

— George Steiner

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about.…

— C. S. Lewis

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to…

— Rumi

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

— Joseph Brodsky