Language Quote by Frances O'Roark Dowell

“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he…

— Jay Crownover

“He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold…

— Sherwood Anderson

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were…

— Robert E. Howard

“His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.”

— Ally Condie

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

“It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves…

— Lois Lowry