Bernard Malamud Quotes

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

We must plow through the whole of language.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Language is a social art.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.