Drawing Quote by Margaret Stevens

“We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the…

— Joan Didion

“I let his words fall around me like music; not understanding every line but enjoying the sound they make.”

— Clare Mackintosh

“the best conversations wandered and twisted around.  Sometimes you learn more that way than traveling in straight lines. ”

— Debora Geary

“The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.”

— Jonathan Culver

“And maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell…

— David Nicholls

“Every world has its distinct lingo, you gotta catch the right chord. Same language evokes different feelings, based on time and age of the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with…

— Anne Rice

“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”

— Bodhidharma

“Thanks to [language], human beings - and we alone - can truly enter and explore the feelings of others. What an extraordinary skill.”

— Naoki Higashida