Bad language Quote by Colum McCann

“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

“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected…

— Emma Straub

“The very best that can be said is that he uttered a string of fatuous non sequiturs. There is not even a strand of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

“There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.”

— Melissa Kantor

“In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies…

— Frank McCourt

“How many words are spoken in New York every day, just in Manhattan alone, say? And how many are really heard? Seventeen, maybe. On…

— Richard Kramer

“IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”

— Oscar Wilde

“You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to write about it.' 'Of course I always like to know what…

— Graham Greene

“Words, even the most ephemeral ones are facts, as heavy as fetters, they leave deep marks.”

— Anonymous

“Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?”

— Annie Proulx