Control Quote by Arabella Sveinsdottir

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and…

— Dean Koontz

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”

— J.A. Burrow

“After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis

“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing…

— John Stuart Mill

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous