Action Quote by Paul de Man

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

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Ciaran Carson

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

“… 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

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the…

— Carmen Boullosa

Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It…

— Gaston Bachelard

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

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through…

— Thornton Wilder