Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or writer:
“A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie.... Children have been treated ... as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.”
—Beatrix Campbell (b. 1947)
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)