Some Quotes on Language and Writing
Mark Hopkins said, "Language is the picture and counterpart of thought."
Claude Levi-Strauss observed, "Language is a form of human reason and has its reasons which are unknown to man."
Ludwig Wittgenstein commented, "The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
Mark Twain noted, "The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug."
Sheridan Baker proposed, "Grammar gives you command of language; logic, command of thought; rhetoric command of men."
William Faulkner claimed, "A writer needs three things, experience, observation and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
William Zinsser emphasized, "Writing well means believing in your writing and believing in yourself, taking risks, daring to be different, pushing yourself to excel. You will write only as well as you make yourself write."
