Book Quote by Ken Scott

“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

“READING CAN EDUCATE YOU AND IF YOUR BORED SOME BOOKS THAT ARE INTERESTING. ”

— Antonio de Andrade

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

— Albert J. Nock

“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a…

— W.H. Auden

“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary…

— Anonymous

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

“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in a hierarchical…

— W H Auden

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

“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

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

“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.”

— Ian Campbell Ross

“how can you read books?”

— Melanie Watt