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I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.