Alexa Chung Quotes

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

I find words really hard.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

I'm not very good at standard English.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

I love the English language. Words have power.

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

I'm a real big fan of words.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.