Language Quote by Elizabeth Bear

“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to squelch the…

— Richard Phillips

“And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that…

— Dava Sobel

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Tessa Dare

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

— Alexander Theroux

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

— Frank Herbert

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

“(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“Part of the magic of the imagination is that it can conjure something out of nothing except the simple medium of words until the…

— Sarah Arthur

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words…

— Mal Peet