Creeps Quote by Peter Farb

“Every time I read a newspaper, recognizing by experience the real meaning of each word that has been omitted, I feel sad, and even…

— Mikhail Iossel

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

“Empty words degrade language.”

— Toba Beta

“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of words together,…

— Rebecca Solnit

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

— Dan Simmons

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

— Lauren Oliver

In our society, more and more, people are running around offended by syllables, even. People are afraid to say anything. It reminds me of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect,…

— Russell Baker

Language changes the flavour of the people, it changes the way you tell a story.

— Shriya Saran

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

— Jonathan Swift