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Language Quotes by Stephen King
- Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police…
- Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth…
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome…
- It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
- French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
- And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on…
- There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't…
- He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman…
- The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
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- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot