Creativity Quote by Jean Aitchison

“Language needs creativity and imagination to work, if not it will seem and sound stupid with its lack of sense and meaning”

— Kimberly Loskov

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“We writers aren't sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, paragraphs, syntax, voice; materials issued by tongue or fingertips but…

— Jonathan Lethem

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

It is just so satisfying to create work that is beyond the framework of language. I think for me that when I make art,…

— Truong Tran

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

— Edward Sapir

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects,…

— Maria Tatar

Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the…

— Dan Simmons

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

— Yoko Ono

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott