Humor Quote by Charles Bukowski

“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”

— Eddie Cantor

“I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word.”

— M. Pierce

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Even when a thought springs fresh in my mind on the subway and solves an essay I’d just about abandoned. On the rare occasion…

— Durga Chew-Bose

“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.”

— Sydney Jane Baily

“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the…

— Monica Wood

“Because I am eighteen I know a great many things; for example, I know that sticks and stones are indeed very effective mechanisms with…

— Alyssa Brugman

“I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book,…

— The Harvard Lampoon

“Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.”

— Mary M. Forbes

“The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently I found…

— Leah Hager Cohen