Books Quote by Saul Bellow

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. (I know…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— T. MacLaughlin

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;…

— Eugene Peterson

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

— Tom Stoppard

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with…

— Ciaran Carson

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

“Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.”

— Brian Herbert

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

— Samuel Johnson

“Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are…

— David James Duncan