Quote by China Miéville Download Open image ““staggering out of Language, into language”” — China Miéville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t… — Glenn Dixon Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.” — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
