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."

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."

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

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!"

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

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?"

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

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

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

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

"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.