Language Quote by Philip Pullman

“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”

— Philip Pullman

“How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all…

— D.H. Lawrence

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

— Nicole Krauss

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed…

— Ray Bradbury

“I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a…

— Charles Bukowski

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

“The elaborate search for a word, like the turning of a chain handle on a well. Dropping the bucket down the mineshaft of the…

— Colum McCann

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen…

— Eric Overby

“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in…

— Amal El-Mohtar

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that…

— Nicole Krauss

“Something made out of words...”

— Matthew Small

“I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word.”

— M. Pierce