The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.
The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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