High school Quote by Daniel Alarcon

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later…

— Sharon Creech

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to…

— Leon Uris

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

— Amy Tan

English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in English because…

— Olivia Merilahti

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was…

— Petr Cech

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

— Daniel Alarcon

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a…

— Zoe Kazan

I taught high school students Spanish.

— Daniela Bobadilla

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined…

— George Crumb

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father…

— Jencarlos Canela

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu