42 Quotes About Word-choice

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

The best way to ensure that your writing is as good as you can make it is simply to consult your imagination and judgment as you write and take note of whether you are using an expression that has found its way into the stream simply because it's always there, swirling lifelessly in an eddy, where it was recently deposited by some other writer you have read.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.