Quotes by : Robert Lane Greene

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of....

Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created....

Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes....

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker....

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated....

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means,....

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening,....

Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are....

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it.....