Behinds Quote by Jerzy Kosinski

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

— Lorrie Moore

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

— Robert Morgan

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

— Karch Kiraly

“What would he have to say about the Nabokov Museum in the same city, which during the Stalin era had served as the office…

— Orhan Pamuk

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

— Jeanette Winterson

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”

— Leslie Langtry

“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to it by…

— Leo Tolstoy

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

— Richard Chenevix Trench