Bewildered Quote by Washington Irving

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

— Robert Morgan

“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

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

True creativity often starts where language ends.

— Arthur Koestler

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

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined.…

— Heather O'Neill

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