Quotes

Language? What is it? 

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." -- George Orwell

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth." -- George Carlin

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape." -- Mason Cooley

"Of all our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language." -- Walt Disney

Literature? What is it? 

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote." -- E. M. Forster

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." -- G. K. Chesterton

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." -- Fernando Pessoa

"Literature adds reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." -- C.S Lewis

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." -- Robert Louis Stevenson