Linguistic Creativity Quotes

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.