Maya Written Language

Famous quotes containing the words written and/or language:

“The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)