Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Suzette Haden Elgin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American fictioneer Suzette Haden Elgin.

Last updated on November 20, 2024.

Suzette Haden Elgin was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Her best-known non-fiction includes her Verbal Self-Defense series.

American - Fictioneer | November 18, 1936 - January 27, 2015

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You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Suzette Haden Elgin

Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

Suzette Haden Elgin

This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.

Suzette Haden Elgin

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

Suzette Haden Elgin

If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.

Suzette Haden Elgin