Language Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

— Freya Stark

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many…

— Charles Dickens

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in…

— Leo Tolstoy

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

— Edwin Newman

“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks…

— Avi Steinberg

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

— Eric Hobsbawm

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are…

— Joel Chandler Harris

“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand…

— Terry Pratchett

“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