Bigs Quote by Junot Diaz

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Derek Walcott

I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the…

— Ezra Pound

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

— Gregory Rabassa

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between…

— Sakyong Mipham

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even…

— Chinua Achebe

Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways.…

— Anna Ternheim

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we…

— Morris Gleitzman

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to…

— Adrian Mitchell