I regard writing not
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. Evelyn Waugh
Use Of Language
The mystery lies in
The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. Eudora Welty
I write in order
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of … Read more
It is quite an
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. Edward Sapir
I think fiction goes
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. Edward Hirsch
About the use of
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. Edsger Dijkstra
Consider the way you
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it’s a reflection of your warrior spirit. Frederick Lenz
The Little Friend is
The Little Friend is a long book. It’s also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. Donna Tartt
Flaubert was right when
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity. Christopher Hitchens
You don’t have to
You don’t have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don’t have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language. Charles de Lint