Art Quote by Mike Tyson

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much…

— Kathryn Schulz

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

— Zig Ziglar

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films…

— Grace Potter

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my…

— Grace Paley

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

I have a huge passion for literature.

— Emily Perkins

I'm more of a wordsmith, so I like taking different words and trying to see what I can do with them - as many…

— Rakim

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Jack Woodford

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

— Franz Kafka

I built up a luminous vocabulary so I could educate the masses.

— Bob Backlund