Language Quote by Yuriy Tarnawsky

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have…

— Louis Begley

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during…

— Tom Waits

“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing forms a…

— Hélène Cixous

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined.…

— Heather O'Neill

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

— Elif Safak

I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words…

— Susan Griffin

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway,…

— Joseph Brodsky

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires…

— John Milius

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes…

— Melissa Rosenberg