Books Quote by J.A. Burrow

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

— John Sutherland

“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

“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

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing…

— John Stuart Mill

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

“Language and literature allows us to define our own truths using our perceptions of culture and society.”

— T. MacLaughlin

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler