J. M. G. Le Clezio Quotes

You couldn't have human society without language.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Food is a great way of communicating.

Speech is civilization itself.

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

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Music is the way I talk to people.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures