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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Language, Word, Humor, Criticism

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

Language, Memory, Communication, Change

"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Language, Mood, Meaning, Context

"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Language, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Life

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Language, Word, Thought, Expression, Communication

"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Language, Meaning, Creativity, Expression

"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Language, Communication, Silence, Expression

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Language, Word, Love, Truth, Meaning

"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Language, Sound, Sense, Poetry

"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Language, Truth, Curiosity, Humor, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Peter Bichsel

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

Literature

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Nation

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

Creativity

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

Literature

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

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