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“What need was there for words, when we had just shared the sky?”

— Melanie Benjamin

“In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television. Spirits spoke to people through what they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread.”

— Tessa Dare

“the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of…

— Orson Scott Card

“Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of…

— Thomas Pynchon

“You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected, factured space;…

— Sarah Winman

“Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place? And a whisper, a whisper about the…

— J.K. Rowling

“Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us…

— Anthony Horowitz

“For hours, they wrote back and forth, a conversation punctuated by short periods of waiting, where Lucy held her breath and kept watch over…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“She had a small bit of knowledge of Morse code from her early days as a pilot, but she was on the tail end…

— James Hunt

“With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was…

— Joseph Heller

“Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man’s quest for perfect communications.”

— Arthur C. Clarke