Familiar Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own…

— Paul de Man

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

— Elie Wiesel

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the…

— Robert Lepage

“People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.”

— Maribel C. Pagan

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

— George Bernard Shaw

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

— Daryl Davis

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

— Nataly Kelly

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of…

— Robert Greene

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

— Kató Lomb