Books Quote by Lemony Snicket

“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In”

— Eileen Granfors

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura

“And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word…

— Simon Winchester

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer…

— Alasdair Gray

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in…

— Corra May Harris

“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

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. .

— Ritu Ghatourey

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour…

— Cyril Connolly

“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles…

— Roland Barthes

Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.

— Ted Berkman

“The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and…

— John Steinbeck