Language Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.”

— Erin Kissane

“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we…

— Robert Coles

“I watch James's face. His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago.”

— Cristin Terrill

“It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world.”

— William E. Jefferson

“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is…

— John McGahern

“Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire.”

— George W. Crane

“Every person was his own country, she thought, governed by a private language, a personal reason and custom”

— Meredith Duran

“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by giving the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter