Books Quote by W.H. Auden

“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

“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

— Ken Scott

“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

“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it…

— Mary Stolz

“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.”

— R.S. Lehner

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“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

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

— William Faulkner

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The…

— Roy Peter Clark

“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river…

— Sofia Samatar