Language Quote by James D. Houston

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

— James Houston

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one…

— Nora Roberts

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage…

— Douglas Adams

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think…

— Susan Sontag

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

— A. A. Gill

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

— Mark Rubinstein

Why are some things easier to write than say?

— Ally Condie

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

— Julian Huxley

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

— Wilson Follett