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American novelist, poet, essayist 1937–2016Related quotes
“Language is often changed by writers.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.”
Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading
Source: ABC of Reading (1934), Chapter 3
Context: Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
“For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book One, Chapter XIII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose
“For a writer, only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate