Garth Greenwell Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.

  Garth Greenwell

  Teacher, Book, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

  Garth Greenwell

  Months, Firsts, World

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

  Garth Greenwell

  Mean, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

  Garth Greenwell

  Musical, Study, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

• When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

  Garth Greenwell

  Class, Quality, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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