Appearance Quote by Kathy Acker

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

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 exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

— Edward Sapir

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as…

— Noam Chomsky

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin