Language Quote by Wilson Follett

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

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

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

— Slavoj Žižek

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

— James Houston

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

— Evanna Lynch

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

— Cynthia Lord

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more…

— E. J. W. Barber