Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap

I was also in love with the English language.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Doug Larson
Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Elif Safak
Elif Safak

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman

Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting - even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing.

Elizabeth Flock
Elizabeth Flock

Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality.

Erez Lieberman Aiden
Erez Lieberman Aiden

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.