Language Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

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

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like…

— Joel Plaskett

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

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

— Mos Def

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

— Jen Lancaster

I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as…

— Ali Smith

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

— Sixto Rodriguez

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

— Saul Williams

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I…

— Julia Glass

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how…

— Maya Angelou