Ben Marcus Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

  Ben Marcus

  Wise, Art, Pain

  Ben Marcus (2013). “The Age of Wire and String”, p.92, Granta Books

• Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

  Ben Marcus

  Children, Fiction, Faces

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

• A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

  Ben Marcus

  Language, Failing, Desperate

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.54, Vintage

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