“For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.” SpeakLanguageShareStrangeLike YouDictatorshipSomeone You Like Author:Jaume Cabre
“Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as English, but there are other languages whose survival is not so sure, such as Catalan, especially if they don't have a state that protects them. Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and Andorra. There are about ten million people who understand it and eight and a half who can speak it. But its future is much less certain than, for example, Danish or Slovenian or Latvian, because they have a state.” PeopleWorldSpeakLanguageProtectSurvival Author:Jaume Cabre
“The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.” SpeakSpeak The Truth Author:Jaume Cabre