Books Quote by Sandra Cisneros

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

— Marisa Silver

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

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything…

— Neal Stephenson

Story of the english language

— Harry Reasoner

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings;…

— Jonathan Swift

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate.…

— Eleanor Catton

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

— Darren Aronofsky

Verbing weirds language.

— Bill Watterson

“Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth…

— John Lawler

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir