David Crystal Quotes

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.

Reading is more important than writing.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

My mother taught me how to write.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I'm not very good at standard English.

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

I can read and write in Hindi.

Kids who read are bright.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud at a very young age. I was very focused on English and building my vocabulary.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.