Goals Quote by Samuel Beckett

“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it.…

— Michel Foucault

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.”

— K.D. Green

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We…

— Matt Haig

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar