Language Quote by Jonathan Stalling

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

— John Sutherland

“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

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

“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a…

— Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert

“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a…

— Arthur F. Holmes

“Writing is today 's currency for good ideas.”

— Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

— P. D. James

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“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

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

— Dan Simmons

“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing helps fulfill…

— Suman Pokhrel

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of…

— Michael Salu