The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
Tony Stark: And for gosh's sake, watch your language!
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
