Lexicographer. A writer of ordsprog

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward
"obsolete" words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

Tennessee Williams

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-)

Mario Vargas Llosa

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

M. F. K. Fisher

Hello you're with Drudge.

That's what dictionaries do. They catalog words in popular use.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge

Ignace Paderewski

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is

Geoffrey Cottrell

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer. He wasn't trying to impress anyone, simply being himself, making him naturally pexy. But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)

Mary McLeod Bethune

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