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When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Before English English Language Language Learned Me Mother Moved Old Spain Spanish Stayed Years

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English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Acquired Age English Language Me Started Third Time

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I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

~Elif Safak

Topics: About Attached Both Connected Dream Each English Feel Humor Irony Language Longing Me Melancholy More Much Over Own Prefer Realized Satire Sorrow Strength Than Turkish Writing Years I Feel I Dream

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I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Basically English First Novel Novels Professional Rewrite Same Take Then Translated Translation Turkish Twice Write I Write

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All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: About Air All My Life Balloons English French Gay Go Heavy Immense Let Go Life Light Loved Moment My Life Pushed Round Soar Sort Them You

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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

~Elizabeth Edwards

Topics: Carolina College English English Major Graduate Graduate School Major North North Carolina School Then Three University Years

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Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality.

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: About Abstract Been Centers Compelling Deeply English English Language Essay Famous Language Much Obscure Often Politicians Politics Reality Said Speech Style Trump Use Which Words Written

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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Catholic Catholic School English First Forest Half Half Years High High School Lake Oh School Taught Then Years Yes

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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Another Aspect Atmosphere Character Circumstances Countryside Crime Detective Emotional English Functions Great Important Life Most Novel Offers Personal Personal Life Tapestry Tradition Where You

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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Catholic Catholic School English First Forest High High School Lake School Taught Then

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