Absolutes Quote by Michael Chabon

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

— Franz Grillparzer

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

— Doris Lessing

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

— Agatha Christie

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

— David Hogg

I often wonder why we don't have an English word for 'genre.' People on arts programmes always have to use the word and invariably…

— Maureen Lipman

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

— Amanda Seyfried

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic…

— William Safire

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi,"…

— Emily Post

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from…

— Erin McKean

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

— John Boyle O'Reilly

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

— Leo Szilard