Bother Quote by Maggie Nelson

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read…

— Charlton Laird

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

— Nate Lowman

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

— Jane Yolen

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my…

— Michael J. Knowles

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

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 is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

I love language as I love life itself!

— Jacques Derrida

“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those using it.…

— Louis Yako