Food for thought…
Philip Glass:
“A new language requires a new technique. If what you’re saying doesn’t require a new language, then what you’re saying probably isn’t new.”
Marcel Proust:
“Every writer is obliged to create his own language, as every violinist is obliged to create his own ‘tone’…. I don’t mean to say that I like original writers who write badly. I prefer — and perhaps it’s a weakness — those who write well. But they begin to write well only on condition that they’re original, that they create their own language. Correctness, perfection of style do exist, but on the other side of originality, after having gone through all the faults, not this side. Correctness this side — ‘discreet emotion,’ ’smiling good nature,’ ‘most abominable of all years’ — doesn’t exist. The only way to defend language is to attack it.”
