Quotes and Sayings about Spelling

"How do you spell 'belligerent'?" said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. "It can't be B-U-M-"
"No, it isn't," said Hermione, pulling Ron's essay toward her. "And 'augury' doesn't begin O-R-G either. What kind of quill are you using?"
"It's one of Fred and George's Spell-Check ones, but I think the charm must be wearing off."

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Clarence: "Yo, you a serious little nerd."
Steve Urkel: "No, I AM a serious little nerd. You see, I use verbs. Verbs are our friends. They help move along our sentences."

Steve Urkel in Family Matters

Grammar

Eleanor: "Is 'do revenge' even, like, correct grammar?"
Drea: "Oh, I'm sorry, Schoolhouse Rock, are you dragging my sentence structure right now?"

Drea Torres in Do Revenge

Grammar

Todd Ingram: "We have an unfinished business. I and he."
Scott Pilgrim: "He and me."
Todd Ingram: "Don't you talk to me about grammar!"

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Grammar

Morty: "I have English homework."
Rick: "You're still learning English? It's the language you speak. How dumb are you?"

Rick Sanchez in Rick and Morty - Season 4 Episode 8

Grammar

Bronn: "The master of coin looks forward to helping the master of ships. But first he has to ensure we're no wasting coin, or soon there won't be no more coin."
Davos: "Any more."
Bronn: "You're master of grammar now too?"

Bronn in Game of Thrones - Season 8 Episode 6

Grammar

People... they don't write anymore - they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.

Hank Moody in Californication - Season 1 Episode 5

Internet Grammar

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Stories Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Joanne K. Rowling

Writing

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Rod Serling

Writing Freedom Journalism

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

Writing Depression

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing Sentences

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Stories Writing

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Lewis Carroll

Writing Talking

I listen to my words, but they fall far below
I let my music take me, where my heart wants to go

Cat Stevens - The Wind

Music Writing

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Books Writing

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words Poetry Writing

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Stephen King in The Stand

Words Writing

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

Neil Postman

Words Writing

"Follow the spiders"... Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies"?

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Spiders

You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Hermione Granger

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Kindness

"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me 'sir' Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

Harry James Potter in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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