Spelling Quotes

“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.”
― Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh

“Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.) Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.) Lose control. Don’t think. Don’t get logical. Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.”
― Guy Deutscher, The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

“I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“The story’s what matters; spelling’s overrated.”
― Adam Langer, The Salinger Contract

“You young people learned spelling by the ‘Close Enough’ method.”
― Garrison Keillor

“বাঙলা, এবং যে-কোনো, ভাষার শুদ্ধ বানান লেখার সহজতম উপায় শুদ্ধ বানানটি শিখে নেয়া।”
― Humayun Azad

“I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life is like a little book written
With a whole lot of surprise.
Spell a word that doesn´t fit in
And that´s a spell in desguise.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Witches Of Avignon

“I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.”
― Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

“The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably.

"Manners?"

"Hah! Right, but no"

"Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?"

"No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."

Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?"

"Right. None at all.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Spelling is the clothing of words, their outward visible sign, and even those who favour sweatpants in everyday life like to make a bella figura, as the Italians say – a good impression – in their prose.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,- why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.”
― George Eliot

“Sex is a three letter word even the worst speller in the world can spell.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.”
― Wolfgang Borchert, Draußen vor der Tür

“It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net”
― David Chiles

“Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.”
― George Takei, Oh Myyy!

“I actually intentially have poor spelling and grammar in my books. I feel that spelling and grammar shoudn't reflect inteltect. I beleive not everyone has the same recorses. Not everyone can aford to be taught the same grammar. Some people like me have learning dissabilites. Some people have dissorders or mental dissabilites. Some people never went to school. So when your judging someones writing, or reviewing, it. Please I ask of you this, don't take the grammar and spelling into acount. Because lets face it. Not everyone is as privleged as you.”
― Adam Snowflake

“If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer.”
― Lord Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the "facts" given on the site.”
― Randolph Hock

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― James Hauenstein

“Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests”
― Laurie E. Rozakis, I Before E, Except After C: Spelling for the Alphabetically Challenged

“N-O-W-A-C-K.”
“No C.”
“Oh. Okay. N-O-W-A-C.”
― Marshall Thornton, Lucky Days

“Youir're doing this wrong.”
― Will Advise

“If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.”
― Oxford University Press