Erin McKean Quotes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Reading taught me how to write.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Language is the light of the mind

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Language cares.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.