Books Quote by Terry Eagleton

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

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

— Amos Oz

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 can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text…

— Roland Barthes

It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery…

— Carey Mercer

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command…

— Barbara Walters

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

— Raymond Chandler

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in…

— Hannah Arendt