Quotes About Wordsmith

Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

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

Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

But as Mark Twain once observed, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is as the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. So do strive for that right word!

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words can be said in a moment that will not be forgotten in years.

Ah, this blasted habit of mine of inventing or deriving words!

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

I love to invent words but even when I think I've invented one or a new variation on a word, I often find that someone else has already made use of it.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

Quite often people ask me 'Is there a word for... ' and go on to highlight a gap in our language that we need to fill.

Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.

Reading the dictionary helps me express myself better. I can spend hours flicking through a thesaurus, too. It's not about expanding my vocabulary, it's just that I have a very specific taste with words. I'll sit and write lists of them to help me better describe my life.

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style.

He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever. He uses a lot of similes and metaphors. He's a beast of a rapper.