H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

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.

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I was also in love with the English language.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

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

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

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

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.