Books Quote by China Miéville

“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

“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.”

— Andy Rooney

“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.”

— Michael Hyatt

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

— Eddie Cantor

“The way i figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you…

— Robyn Schneider

“That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.”

— Chris Lynch

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“You can't read all the time.”

— Patricia Kay

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

— Harold Bloom

“It’s like you’re a book I’ve read a thousand time without ever picking up. Your prose that effortlessly falls off my tongue and yet,…

— Sarah Noffke

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

— Derek B. Miller