A. S. Byatt Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

  A. S. Byatt

  Powerful, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011

• A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.

  A. S. Byatt

  Children, Book, Numbers

• There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  School, Writing, Artist

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