Faith Quote by Walker Percy

For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's…

— Claire Messud

“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It…

— Brian Friel

“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.”

— Muriel Barbery

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Nicholas Ostler

“Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of…

— William E. Jefferson

“If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.”

— Lynne Truss

“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of human relationships,…

— Gavin Maxwell

“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into…

— Daphne Rose Kingma