Language Quote by Matt Weiland

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough…

— William Hazlitt

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin

“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.”

— Iris Murdoch

“Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with…

— William Hazlitt

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig

“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the…

— Brenda Ueland

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

— Josh Farrar

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani