Dictionaries Quote by Douglas Wilson

“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

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

— Grenville Kleiser

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

— Ruskin Bond

“I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a…

— Charles Bukowski

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

— Zach Gilford

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

— Ken Scott

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line,…

— W. P. Kinsella

“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...”

— Mark Haddon

“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 actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

— Labrinth

“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