Brenda Lee Quotes

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

I was also in love with the English language.

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

Working with language requires beauty for me.

I'm quite obsessed with words.

I love the English language. Words have power.

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Languages are true analytical methods.

I was a terrible English student.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.