Active Quote by Grace Paley

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

— Elizabeth Taylor

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

— Jack Woodford

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

— Katherine Anne Porter

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

— Christopher Monckton

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

— Nicholas Sparks

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

— Mike Tyson

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

— George Sand

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

— Mark Twain

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

— Samuel Butler

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

— Twyla Tharp

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

— Suzanne Vega