Books Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as…

— Ali Smith

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

— Bonnie Hammer

The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her…

— Anthony Doerr

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

— Kurt Gödel

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and…

— Anonymous

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability…

— James Earl Jones

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their…

— Kilroy J. Oldster