Books Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

— Jeanette Winterson

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie

A sense of place is very important in writing.

— William Lashner

The language that reveals also obscures.

— Wendell Berry

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

— Robert Morgan

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

— John Dufresne

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a…

— Thomas Pynchon

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language…

— Octavio Paz

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino