Books Quote by Sofia Samatar

“BOOKS… "The Loom of Language”

— Malcolm X

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

The first book in most languages of the world has been the Bible!!

— Glen Rambharack

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and…

— Dean Koontz

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone”

— Kenneth White

“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”

— J.A. Burrow

“God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery…

— Karen Swallow Prior

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

— Bayard Taylor