Books Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer,…

— Stan D. Jensen

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as…

— Os Guinness

“What I really devoured . . . was the truculence of my hosts' language: the syntax may have been brutally sloppy, but it was…

— Muriel Barbery

“Our sacred literature does not use obscure language, but describes most things in words clearly indicating their meaning. Therefore it is necessary at all…

— Samson Raphael Hirsch

“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into…

— Daphne Rose Kingma

“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

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in… He now knows that the only words worth writing…

— Andreï Makine