Language Quote by Carson McCullers

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”

— Toni Morrison

“The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse…

— Thomas Hardy

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to receive, but…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to know and…

— Sarah Ockler

“His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.”

— Frank Herbert

“He learned that some things that seemed to make little sense were senseless only from his point of view, not necessarily from someone else's…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“Even the serenity he felt was something that needed to be understood; it seemed a symptom of a deeper and more complete understanding that…

— Lucius Shepard

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov