Delicate Quote by Raymond Chandler

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

— Mary Pipher

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

— Joseph Brodsky

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

— Edward Sapir

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

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

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a…

— Raymond Chandler

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel