"I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Elif Batuman

#Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes #School Quotes

“I prefer black music in general.”
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
“Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.”
“To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.”
“The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.”
“I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.”
“Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?Of course, everyone knows that I'm also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.”

Source : Interview With Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2007.

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