Quotes by Language Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly. Alice Childress uglyprejudicelanguage Anguish is the universal language. Alice Fulton anguishempathylanguage I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working Alice Hoffman languagewantwriting You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood. Alice Hoffman guessinglanguagedog Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world. Alice McDermott languagetoolsworld The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. Alice McDermott vulgarlanguageworld To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. Alice Sebold narrativelanguagebeautiful Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak. Alice Sebold languageproblemcountry Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. Alice Walker who-we-arelanguageevil I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways. Alison Mosshart languagewaythinking The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness. Allen Ginsberg censorshipconsciousnesslanguage There are no language barriers when you are smiling. Allen Klein language-barriersbarrierslanguage Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language. Allison Joseph languagecharacterfather The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere? Allison Mackie sincerelanguagestrong The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator. Alma Guillermoprieto gloveslanguageskills One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. Alma Guillermoprieto givenlanguagedoe RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself. Ambrose Bierce oneselflanguage Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic Ambrose Bierce literary-devicesgrowthlanguage Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. Ambrose Bierce definitionsgrowthlanguage Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. Amos Oz languageliteraturefirsts«1234567891011»
