Breakdown Quote by Dan Simmons

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

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

— John Sutherland

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world…

— Jonathan Stalling

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;…

— Eugene Peterson

“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost…

— Massimo Pigliucci

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano