Book Quote by Alexander Theroux

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

— Ken Scott

“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

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible,"…

— Napoleon Hill

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 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

“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write…

— Douglas Wilson

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was…

— David Robinson

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

— Emma Kenney

It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in the dictionary.

— Alex Horne

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and…

— Mohammed Dib

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

— Joe R. Lansdale