Easily Quote by Heinrich Boll

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

— Derek Walcott

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

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the…

— Carmen Boullosa

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a…

— Anna Journey

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

— Francis Schaeffer