Experiment Quote by Ruskin Bond

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 so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always been interested…

— Sam Lipsyte

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read…

— Charlton Laird

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

— Ruth Ozeki

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult…

— Martin Amis

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other…

— Junot Diaz

“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in one language…

— Abhijit Naskar

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when…

— J. R. R. Tolkien