Human condition Quote by Mary Pipher

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part…

— Mary Pipher

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

— Joseph Brodsky

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but…

— Donald E. Westlake

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language precisely, whereas…

— Vern Rutsala

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

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

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Derek Walcott

Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life…

— Jeanette Winterson

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

— Edward Sapir

We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite,…

— Roland Barthes

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates