Ifs Quote by Helen DeWitt

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

— Chinua Achebe

If you don't like my book, write your own.

— Rita Mae Brown

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it,…

— Peter Levi

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

— Etgar Keret

“A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like…

— Rowan Moore

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

— Ben Kingsley

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

— Mike Myers

“The French are like a coin with a different face on either side of it (every coin has two faces), for every action there…

— C. JoyBell C

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

— Ani DiFranco