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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"There is a pride in speaking this language."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
Books
"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
Poetry
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
Challenge
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
Technology
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
"If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say."
Language
"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."
Books
"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
Crime
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