Body Quote by Kathy Acker

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

— Karl Kraus

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not…

— William Stafford

“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you are dreaming…

— Louise Erdrich

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used…

— Robert Fitzgerald

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can…

— Neil Gaiman

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

— Roland Barthes

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology…

— Pope Francis

I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around with fiction,…

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Mark Amidon