Conception Quote by William Benton Clulow

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

— Cynthia Ozick

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And…

— Cynthia Ozick

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

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the…

— Carmen Boullosa

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers; by them,…

— Percival Stockdale

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived

— Samuel Johnson