If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
Clifford Geertz
Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
Elizabeth George
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
Bahman Ghobadi
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
Shreya Ghoshal
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
William Gibson
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained... →
Marilyn Hacker
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary... →