Quotes About Language

My English is good because I have a good ear.

I could go out and talk about President Clinton... or some issue, but people will be on either side. But everyone eats. It's the international language, like Esperanto.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

I am not eloquent.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

I want to learn English.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

I read good. I was an English major.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.