Bigs Quote by Junot Diaz

I try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we should listen…

— Don Winslow

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write…

— Louis Menand

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

— DJ Snake

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

I have a good ear for languages.

— Harry Dean Stanton

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

— Wole Soyinka

It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity…

— Ruskin Bond

While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I…

— Jesmyn Ward

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they…

— Robert Frost

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly…

— Anne Tyler