Ability Quote by Toni Morrison

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language…

— Iris Murdoch

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday…

— Anonymous

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

“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

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

“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

“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those using it.…

— Louis Yako

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer