Annoy Quote by Erin McKean

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

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

— Erin McKean

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't…

— James Webb Young

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

— Samuel Johnson

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

— Hannah Arendt

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up…

— Peter Farb

“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can…

— Ambrose Bierce