Book Quote by Albert J. Nock

“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

— Ken Scott

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words are being…

— Susie Dent

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled…

— Beverly Cleary

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which…

— Washington Irving

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip…

— Erin McKean

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in…

— James Gleick

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

— Carrie Preston

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written…

— Tim Gunn

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick