Actual Quote by John McWhorter

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You…

— Alessandro Michele

“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of…

— Jean Aitchison

“When it comes to languages, I'm passably fluent in HTML.”

— Bernie Su

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

— Ana Castillo

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

— Erik Naggum

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language…

— Ben Gibbard