China Miéville

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

These felt very much like last moments.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.You have never spoken before.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

If I program __are with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,_ Scile said. __f I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it__ only sound, and that__ not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.