6 quotes found
“Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain.”
“Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.”
“The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. Its a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no pure language. The only pure langu...”
“We can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment that they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. Its the v...”
“I take the words I can get and try to occupy them. Using the idea that my grandfather gave me If you say a word often enough it becomes you I borrow people for a moment, by borrowing their words....”
“Yet from time to time we are betrayed by language, if not in the words themselves, in the rhythm with which we deliver our words. Over time, I would learn to listen for those wonderful moments when...”
