Education Quote by Kató Lomb

“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

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery

— Mark Amidon

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

— John Sutherland

“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like…

— William H. Gass

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

— Frank Herbert

“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of…

— Henry Sweet

“The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.”

— Jayne Bicker

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell