Language Quote by Stephen Jones

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”

— Nataly Kelly

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

“Good writing just isn't that common.”

— Eric Flint

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden

“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”

— Susie Orbach

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language precisely, whereas…

— Vern Rutsala

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin