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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries…

— Zadie Smith

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

— Voltaire

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

— Anthony Doerr

The English are very exotic to me.

— William Klein

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any…

— Patrick Macnee

I think my English is pretty good, but speaking without thinking about what you are saying, you know, it's just different.

— Evan Fournier

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in…

— George Orwell

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve…

— Cornelia Funke

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought…

— Olivier Martinez

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes…

— Juan Pablo Galavis

The language that reveals also obscures.

— Wendell Berry