Language Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

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

— John Sutherland

“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow more real,…

— Michael Bailey

“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 stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

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

— Derek Walcott

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

“The change of language is a change in reality.”

— Stephen Mitchell

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

— Monique Wittig

“Is language the adequate expression of all realities?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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