Circumstances Quote by W. G. Sebald

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never…

— Zadie Smith

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

— James Merrill

“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

— Lorrie Moore

“He looked out the window, watched people moving past, happy that they were unaware of the horror he’d experienced. How to keep them safe?…

— J.T. Ellison

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

— Peter Mayhew

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Nelson Mandela said it this way, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you…

— Christopher Marco

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

— Jason Patric

I was always influenced by language.

— Helen Dunmore

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

— Martin Amis