Alphabets Quote by Theresa Breslin

“Why the words are called the way they are? Why certain sounds represent certain words, with their own meaning?”

— Kimberly Loskov

“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal…

— Neil Gaiman

“And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that…

— Dava Sobel

“He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words…

— Mal Peet

“The alphabet was an invention below stairs.”

— David Sacks

“I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat,…

— Nicole Brossard

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced…

— Ji Lee

“or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w).”

— Jared Diamond

“Isn’t it amazing how we take them for granted? Those little black marks on paper. Twenty-six different shapes known as letters, arranged in endless…

— Kevin Horsley

“There were many markings in pencil, and those strange symbols again, dashed off, it seemed, revealing their opacity what a complex and abstract thing…

— Anne Rice

“How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's…

— Linda Sue Park