Art Quote by Rabih Alameddine

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“The likeness of Ethiopic to Arabic suggests an original tribal affinity.”

— James John Courtenay

“Ethiopic must be traced ultimately to Arabic.”

— James John Courtenay

“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously…

— Hassan Blasim

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't…

— Hassan Blasim

“The Arabic language has had a great history, and in many respects is more remarkable than any other Semitic speech.”

— James John Courtenay

I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I…

— eL Seed

“One may guess that the commissioning of this work [a logical textbook and translation into Arabic of Aristotle and Porphyry] must have come from…

— Dimitri Gutas

“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“By AD 800, so redeemed was Arabic from the contempt in which it had once been held that its sound had come to rank…

— Tom Holland

“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow…

— Raymond Carver