Anglo saxon Quote by John Mortimer

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a…

— Miles Kington

I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of…

— Dennis Miller

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more…

— Eduardo Galeano

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about…

— Michael Rosen

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or…

— Terry Southern

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in…

— Corra May Harris

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either…

— William Zinsser

I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.

— Twinkle Khanna

“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that…

— Aldous Huxley

Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written…

— John Dewey