Language Quote by Aaron Weiss

“Isn’t it amazing how we take them for granted? Those little black marks on paper. Twenty-six different shapes known as letters, arranged in endless…

— Kevin Horsley

“Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.”

— Jonah Winter

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“I loved the physicality of books just as much as the stories inside, the feel of pages between my fingers, the intricacies of classic…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“I have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and turn them…

— Lynette Willows

“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer…

— Roland Barthes

“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the…

— Robert Kaplan

“This is how we make sense of the world, by trapping it in words and sentences, by pinning it like a butterfly to a…

— Naomi Alderman

“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in…

— Jonathan D. Spence