linguistic embodiment Quotes

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.