Quotes by : Alena Graedon

Language may have limits. But it isn’t just a dim likeness in a mirror. Yes, gestures, glances, touches,....

But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs,....

What if, right now, as we’re immolating language, we’re doing away with ourselves? Maybe we’ve....

In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for....

Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can’t go: Constantinople and Mars,....

Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're....

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

Sometimes the best way out of darkness is into it.

Language also acts like love in form.

People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up.