Language Quote by Brion Gysin

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

— Stewart Brand

“Words belong to the person who wrote them”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our…

— A.y.c.c

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

“I increasingly feel that my writing creates me...I am the invention of my own words~ ”

— Ledo Ivo

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always…

— Elena Ferrante

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

— Richard Paul Evans

Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words…

— Zadie Smith

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

— Dario Argento

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre