Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.
Peter Akinola
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not... →
Daniel Alarcon
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support... →
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done... →
Josef Albers
Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion.... →
Isabel Allende
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then... →
Dorothy Allison