Example Quote by Robert Lane Greene

“Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he…

— Robert Lane Greene

“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

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think,…

— Drew Barrymore

“As the eighteenth- century author Jonathan Swift wrote, you cannot reason someone out of something he has not been reasoned into.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Dictionary of Misunderstood Words”

— Milan Kundera

“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“Far from dampening Araki’s interest, the discovery that his dictionary wasn’t perfect only fanned his ardor. If some definitions weren’t quite successful, he liked…

— Shion Miura

“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway”

— William Faulkner

The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and…

— Ambrose Bierce