Landscape Quote by Virginia Woolf

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

— Louis Aragon

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”

— James Russell Lowell

“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in…

— Paulo Coelho

“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

“He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At…

— Leila Aboulela

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

— Anonymous

“He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world,…

— Charles Dickens

Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken…

— Anonymous

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words…

— Robert Cormier

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

— Primo Levi

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien