Language Quote by Etgar Keret

Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of…

— Kim Hyesoon

“lonely is when the language outside isn't the language inside and words are made of just 26 letters”

— Holly Thompson

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with…

— Jane Hirshfield

“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless…

— Ben Lerner

“Was it possible to live outside language? Naturally this question did not address itself to her in words, or as a single lucid sentence.…

— Arundhati Roy

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later…

— Etgar Keret

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the…

— Jill Davis

It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing…

— Molly Antopol

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers…

— Bat for Lashes

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a…

— Jenny Han

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett