When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
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 suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
