"I was always influenced by language."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Language, English, Example, Lady, Identity

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Language, Culture, Globalization, Identity

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

George Eliot, British Author

Language, Bible, Communication, Humor

"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Language, Sun, Word, Meaning

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Language, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Language, Time, Narrative, Walking

"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Language, Word, Trust, Feeling, Expression

"I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy."

Sean Bean, English Actor

Language, Trying

"Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Language, Communication, Humanity, Animals

"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Language, Theft, Truth, Life

Explore more quotes by Helen Dunmore

"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."

Influence

"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."

Past

"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

Writing

"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."

Hope

"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."

Politics

"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."

Hope

"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."

Books

"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

Poet

"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."

Family

"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

Fact