We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.
Kenneth GoldsmithYou can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
Kenneth GoldsmithAutomation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
Kenneth GoldsmithPoets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.
Kenneth Goldsmith