"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."

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"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

John Astin, American Actor

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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist

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"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."

Robert Fitzgerald, American Author

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"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."

James Merrill, American Poet

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."

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"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."

Now

"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."

Imagination

"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."

Action

"Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list."

Work

"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."

Imagination

"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."

Imagination

"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."

Creativity

"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."

Travel

"My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few."

Adventure