Books Quote by Jennifer Haigh

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.”

— Stephen Jones

“Deal with your readers that they are smart, and write a language that suits their intelligence. - How to write the best story-”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We…

— Matt Haig

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with…

— Ciaran Carson

“...the book typographer's job was building a window between the reader inside a room and that landscape which is the author's words. He may…

— Simon Garfield

“For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.”

— Ken Follett