“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”— Roland Barthes, amazon.com
“As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“My process is like a whirlwind. If the words come I’ll stop someone mid-sentence and run for a pen and paper–and I’m the worst writer I know, I never carry a pen or paper.”— Janne Robinson, redflag.org
“Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”— Swami Vivekananda, goodreads.com
“As long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”— Philip K Dick, amazon.com
“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“These days I just can’t seem to say what I mean. I just can’t. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can’t even remember what I was trying to say in the…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com