Language Quote by Roy Peter Clark

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Language and literature allows us to define our own truths using our perceptions of culture and society.”

— T. MacLaughlin

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

— Fred Rodell

“In critical linguistic research, ‘discourse’ often denotes text and image in real-use contexts. The nature of discourse is multi-faceted: discourse itself constructs ideas and…

— Helen Ringrow

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves…

— Roland Barthes

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

— Elizabeth George

“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It ain't just about writing on some documents, author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.”

— Toba Beta

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword