Ammunition Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“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

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

— Ruskin Bond

“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

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

— Erin McKean

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

— Carrie Preston

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

— Jason E. Hodges

Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It…

— Kory Stamper

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary…

— Alexander Theroux

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

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera