Language Quote by Stanley Fish

“Sometimes there are no words that fit into the space provided.”

— Shawn Smucker

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.”

— Valeria Luiselli

“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”

— Carolee Dean

“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. "Fine.”

— Ilona Andrews

“Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and…

— Lorrie Moore

“Words aren’t meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.”

— Amy King

“For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.”

— Ken Follett

“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.”

— Paul Auster

“But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing.”

— Szymon Laks