Quote by John Andrew Holmes

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

— Martial

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

— Robert De Niro

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

— Nicholson Baker

“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

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

— Peter Abelard

“Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.”

— Dean Burnett

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself…

— Ellen Lupton

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of…

— Rude Jude

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

— Andre Maurois

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

— Shailer Mathews

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes…

— Barry Diller