Across Quote by Tony Conrad

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

The things we call cultures are dynamic, internally diverse, and their interpretation is internally contested among its members. Cultures are like ongoing conversations with…

— David Wong

The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in…

— Jennifer Egan

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts.

— Vikrant Parsai

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately…

— J. M. Coetzee

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

— Lily Tomlin

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

— Monique Wittig

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or…

— Marina Warner

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming