Language Quote by Peter Bichsel Download Open image “Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.” — Peter Bichsel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Writing
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words. — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less… — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
