Communication Quote by Ted Chiang

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

— John Sutherland

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think and perceive.”

— Anonymous

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“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

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving

“Language is complex, yet easy, and amazing.”

— Kimberly Loskov

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.”

— Megan Shepherd