Language Quote by Herodotus

“must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the affectation…

— Herodotus

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“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

“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

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

“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

“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

“in language man has placed a world of his own beside the other, a position which he deemed so fixed that he might therefrom…

— Friedrich Nietzsche