Books Quote by Simin Behbahani

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

— John Sutherland

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

— Karl Jaspers

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also…

— Gunter Grass

“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world…

— Jonathan Stalling

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity…

— Noah Webster

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;…

— Eugene Peterson

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison